- YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (UPI)
-- Indonesian poultry farmers, following a bird flu outbreak, are facing
another mysterious disease that has killed thousands of chickens in the
past few days.
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- Apart from the deaths, which have caused heavy losses,
farmers in Yogyakarta's Sleman region say the problem has been aggravated
by the fact that the surviving chickens are not breeding, the Straits Times
reported Tuesday.
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- And the disease is spreading rapidly.
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- Sick chickens first salivate and show symptoms of diarrhea,
then die within hours, farmers said.
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- The head of the poultry division of the Sleman agriculture
agency, Suwadi Azis, said his office had not received any reports from
poultry farmers on the disease outbreak. But he said the symptoms indicated
the outbreak could be Newcastle Disease.
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- "If that is the disease, we already have the vaccine
to prevent its further spread," he said.
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