NCWCD Program

RIYADH, 30 January 2006 — The National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development (NCWCD) has launched a Kingdomwide monitoring program to track down any further cases of infection by the H5N1 virus of the avian flu in the Kingdom. The move comes close on the heels of the discovery of five infected falcons.

“We will have the monitoring program in places where the local and migratory birds are found in large concentration,” Khaled Al-Humaidan, NCWCD’s director of public relations, told Arab News.