Staying on track against the bird flu virus

The government must stay on the right track in the fight against the avian influenza outbreak without letting go until the A virus is eradicated because this scourge will not go away overnight.

Swift action is vital, as what the Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Animal Industry had done, setting up a 1-kilometer quarantine radius and a 7-km control area. Immediately they culled the birds within the quarantine area in San Luis, Pampanga, where the outbreak first evolved, and in the towns of the adjacent province, Nueva Ecija, where the second outbreak came about as confirmed by Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol early Friday.