(13 Jan 2006) SHOTLIST
13 January 2006
Ibrahim al Khalil checkpoint, Zakho, Turkish border
1. Turkish trucks at checkpoint
2. Wide of Turkish border checkpoint and Turkish flag
3. Turkish trucks driving to the Iraqi checkpoint
4. Wide of trucks near the border checkpoint
5. Sign reads: Customs and Quarantine
6. Trucks at the quarantine
7. Truck door open showing boxes of frozen chicken
8. Close-up of labels on boxes of frozen chicken
9. Men standing in truck doorway
10. Close up of frozen chicken in box
11. Medical official checking box of frozen chicken
12. Sign reads: Veterinary Quarantine
13. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Dr. Waleed Hameed Ahemd, veterinary quarantine official:
"Regarding the bird flu, it is a contagious disease. Especially H5 and H7 are the dangerous ones. Our protective procedures in veterinary quarantine at al Khalil border, we prevent all kinds of imported birds and poultry and all types of imported eggs (from crossing the border.)"
12 January 2006
Bastaki village, near Turkish border
14. Various of ducks
15. Various of villagers and chickens
16. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Fathi Ahmed Haji ,villager:
"We here in this village living near the border of Turkey and breeding poultry, we fear the arrival of bird flu to this village as it will affect our poultry."
17. Wide shot of village
18. Birds in the sky
19. Birds landing on the gate of border checkpoint
20. Close up of birds
21. Wide shot border checkpoint
STORYLINE
Measures are being put in place to prevent the spread of bird flu into Iraq from neighbouring Turkey, Iraqi health officials said.
Importing live birds from Turkey will be suspended as will selling live birds in markets.
Also, frozen birds will have to be medically tested before being transported from one city to another, according to the agriculture ministry in northern Iraq's Kurdish enclave.
At Zakho, a checkpoint on the Turkey-Iraq border, veterinary quarantine official Dr. Waleed Hameed Ahemd said they are implementing "protective procedures" at the borders to prevent avian flu spread.
"We prevent all kinds of imported birds and poultry and all types of imported eggs (from crossing the border.)" said Dr Ahemd.
In the village of Bastaki near Turkish border, villager Fathi Ahmed Haji says they are afraid of the arrival of bird flu.
There has been no reported cases of bird flu in Iraq.
The World health Organisation said a network of "focal points" had been set up across Iraq, with doctors responsible for surveillance and investigating any possible outbreak.
Turkish authorities stepped up the slaughter of chickens, geese and turkeys this week. 18 people have been infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus. Three of them have died.
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