H5N1 Spread in Northern Turkey
Recombinomics Commentary 22:39
February 2, 2008
Turkish authorities in the northern coastal town of Samsun have erected a quarantine zone and begun slaughtering poultry after suspected cases of bird flu, news agency Anatolia reported on Saturday.
Disinfection sites are in operation around the Galeric area, where poultry from seven farms have been slaughtered, it said.
Last month the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was found in a village about 350 kilometres west of Samsun, which lies on Turkey's Black Sea coast.
The above comments describe the spread of H5N1 in Turkey on the Black Sea coast. These outbreaks follow H5N1 outbreaks in Romania, Krasnodar, Ukraine, Rostov, and Iran (see satellite map).
The timing of the recent outbreaks is similar to 2006, when H5N1 outbreaks were widely reported, primarily in February and March. The outbreaks in Europe over the summer signaled increased activity in the fall, which led to increases in current H5N1.
Most recent reports are from India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, but increases in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa are expected in the near term.
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