H5N1 Update: Romania kills thousands of birds amid flu fears
An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:
Authorities were culling thousands of domestic birds in the Danube Delta region Sunday to prevent the spread of a deadly strain of bird flu that has decimated flocks and killed dozens of people in Asia.
Officials said they were also awaiting test results from a British laboratory on samples from birds found dead in Maliuc, a village about 30 kilometers from Ceamurlia de Jos, where the H5N1 bird flu strain was first detected in Romania.
Authorities around the world fear the H5N1 strain could mutate into a form that can be passed among people, leading to a flu pandemic which some say could potentially kill millions.
The strain has already appeared in Turkey, and the European Union has banned all poultry imports from Turkey and Romania. The EU's top public health official, Health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou, said Saturday no further measures to prevent the disease spreading from Romania and Turkey were immediately needed.
posted by Fergie @ 10/17/2005 07:46:00 AM
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