October 25, 2005

The Embassy of the United States to Romania is pleased to announce that the US Government, through the United States Agency for International Development, is providing $500,000 in immediate assistance to help Romania continue fighting the spread of avian flu. The assistance will provide training to agricultural workers in how to identify the disease in both wild and domestic birds and provide more protective clothing and equipment to help agricultural workers safely cull sick birds. In addition, USAID will provide more equipment and supplies to help the Romanian government quarantine and sanitize areas where the virus has been identified. The funding will also help the government educate the public in how to identify suspicious birds and animals, how to work safely with domestic bird flocks, and how to prevent the spread of the disease from birds to humans.

The U.S. Embassy commends the Romanian Government on the prompt actions it has taken to identify the disease and reduce the risk of its spread. Overall, the U.S. has provided $38 million for international efforts to support the nations most severely affected by avian influenza as they work to build up animal and public health systems to better detect and prevent the disease. Under the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza, an 88-nation effort launched by President Bush at the U.N. General Assembly in September, the U.S. government is working closely with the World Health Organization, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Organization for Animal Health in order to contain the avian flu virus and prevent its spread into the human population.

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25 Octombrie 2005

Ambasada Statelor Unite la Bucuresti anunta ca Guvernul Statelor Unite, prin intermediul Agentiei SUA pentru Dezvoltare Internationala (USAID), acorda asistenta financiara imediata in valoare de 500.000 USD pentru a sprijini Romania in eforturile de combatere a raspandirii gripei aviare. Asistenta financiara va acoperi pregatirea agricultorilor privind modul in care pot identifica boala atat la animalele salbatice, cat si la cele domestice, precum si echipamentele de protectie pentru a-i ajuta sa colecteze pasarile moarte in siguranta. Mai mult, USAID va oferi echipamente si provizii pentru a ajuta Guvernul Romaniei sa izoleze si sa dezinfecteze zonele in care s-a identificat virusul gripei aviare. De asemenea, asistenta financiara va ajuta guvernul sa educe populatia privind modul in care sa identifice pasarile si animalele suspecte, sa munceasca in siguranta avand in preajma pasari domestice si sa previna raspandirea bolii de la pasari la oameni.

Ambasada Statelor Unite felicita Guvernul Romaniei pentru masurile prompte intreprinse in sensul identificarii bolii si reducerii riscului de raspandire. Statele Unite au alocat, in total, 38 de milioane USD pentru eforturile internationale de sprijinire a statelor celor mai afectate de gripa aviara, care pun la punct sisteme de sanatate a populatiei si a animalelor pentru o mai buna depistare si prevenire a aparitiei bolii. In baza Parteneriatului International privind Gripa Aviara, efort care implica 88 de state si care a fost initiat de Presedintele Bush in cadrul Adunarii Generale a ONU din luna septembrie, Guvernul Statelor Unite lucreaza indeaproape cu Organizatia Mondiala a Sanatatii, cu Organizatia ONU pentru Alimentatie si Agricultura si cu Organizatia Mondiala pentru Sanatatea Animalelor pentru a impiedica raspandirea virusului gripei aviare si pentru a preveni trasmiterea acestuia la om.

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