(15 Oct 2005)
1. Wide of woman walking in street
2. Close up of woman
3. Close up of birds on tree
4. Chickens in garden
5. Close up of chickens
6. Wide of men outside village café
7. Mid shot of men talking
8. Close up of birds on electric wire
9. SOUNDBITE: (Turkish) Ali Kocdemer, Villager:
"Officials asked for our poultry in the village and we handed it over to be destroyed. They told us the danger has passed now, thank God for this. We don't worry with continuing our normal life."
10. Chicken on roadside
11. SOUNDBITE: (Turkish) Ekrem Gokturk, Mayor of Kiziksa:
"So far the doctors and officials held information meeting with the citizens. Doctors are still waiting in the village, the municipality is working 24 hours, we are taking the necessary measures. We are very happy because none of our citizens have gone to the hospital because of bird flu so far. After the destruction of the poultry now we are continuing the dis-infection process."
12. Truck driving down street spraying disinfectant
13. Tractor spraying disinfectant
14. Pan of empty farm buildings that are to be disinfected soon
15. SOUNDBITE: (Turkish) Suleyman Aksakal, Farm Worker:
"We don't have chickens we have the chicken feed, we have been told to destroy this feed now we are ready to destroy it. First they will disinfect it, then we will destroy it."
16. Various of empty farm buildings
STORYLINE
A quarantined Turkish village where an outbreak of bird flu was detected was sprayed with disinfectant on Saturday
But the authorities warned that while the virus there had been contained there were still risks of new outbreaks in other parts of the country.
A European lab on Thursday said the virus found in a farm near Kiziksa village, some 120 kilometres (80 miles) from Istanbul, was H5N1, the strain officials are most worried about because it has been passed from birds to humans and in Asia killed some 60 of the 117 people who have been infected.
Experts believe the disease came from wild birds migrating through Turkey from the Ural Mountains in Russia to Africa.
Having ordered a cull of all poultry in the area after H5N1 was discovered on a local turkey farm, authorities began to disinfect Kiziksa - a farming community of 1900 people - spraying a mix of veterinary and other disinfectants from the back of a tractor.
The tractor rolled through the small village street by street, and onto the back roads where some chickens could still be seen running around Saturday, a day after authorities had expected to complete the mandatory destruction of all poultry in the village.
Health officials say the disease is hard for humans to catch, and has so far predominantly affected poultry workers. No one has been diagnosed with the virus in Turkey, but veterinary officials caution in private it isn't because farmers have been taking precautions against it.
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