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Mr. Tjeppy D. Soedjana as the Director General of Animal Husbandry, Ministry of Agriculture (Direktur Jenderal Peternakan Departemen Pertanian), ensures that for this time Indonesia perfectly safe from the spread of swine flu that is right now infecting Mexico and The United States of America.
There are a lot of reasons for it, but the main reason is because Indonesia does not have any trade relationships of pork and its derivative products from those two countries. "Hence, the spread of swine flu possibilities to Indonesia is very small,"said Tjeppy.
However,Ministry of Agriculture will be more cautious to this new endemic types with preparing various anticipations. Such as setting up rules and guidelines to respond every emergency situations, human resources, diagnostic lab infrastructures, and the quarantine.
Another Anticipating form such as controling the livestock will also be conducts by the Technical Executive Unit (Unit Pelaksana Teknis)from Directorate General of Animal Husbandry, including giving special attentions to foreign tourists from the United States and Mexico by the Ministry of Agriculture Quarantine Agency. "Because they can act as a carrier of diseases," said Cheppy.
Directorate General of Animal Husbandry has formed a team to conduct meetings and coordinate the anticipation with Directorate General for Disease Control and Environment Sanitation, Department of Health and National Quarantine related to the outbreaks. "Because, in the case of Indonesia, pigs can also be contagious avian influenza (bird flu)," said Tjeppy.
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