H5N1 News: London Laboratory Confirms Bird Flu in Crimea
A London laboratory has confirmed the presence of the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus that is extremely dangerous for humans in the Crimea, a Black Sea autonomy, the Ukrainian Ministry of Agrarian Policy said Saturday.
A Russian laboratory confirmed this earlier.
The Ukrainian Emergency Situations Ministry said bird flu had been registered in 15 Crimean settlements.
More than 62,000 birds were removed from farms and killed. No humans have been diagnosed with the bird flu virus.
posted by Fergie @ 12/17/2005 11:28:00 AM
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