The quarantine on the poultry farm Nionsheli in Khan-Uul
district of Ulaanbaatar will be lifted on September 22. A bird-borne disease
Newcastle that could affect the human eye by eating eggs was traced there. All
sick birds have been destroyed and no infection was found in any other poultry
in the area.

The State will reimburse Nionsheli 90% of the average market price of the 4,847
birds it destroyed. The Emergency Commission has asked other farms in the area
to continue to be vigilant so that the infection does not recur.

Ulaanbaatar city has about 270,000 poultry birds 240,000 of them
in Khan-Uul district.