H5N1 News: Bird Flu Hits Four More Crimean Villages
The strain of the bird flu virus that is extremely dangerous for humans, H5N1, has been found in four more villages in the Crimea, an autonomy on the Black Sea, the Ukrainian Emergency Situations Ministry said Friday.
The ministry said that the virus had been registered in a total of 15 Crimean villages.
More than 59,000 birds were removed from farms and culled. No humans have been diagnosed with the bird flu virus, the ministry added.
posted by Fergie @ 12/16/2005 08:19:00 AM
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