H5N1 Confirmed in Wild Birds on Crimea Peninsula
Recombinomics Commentary 22:05
February 13, 2008
In Sevastopol they revealed bird influenza in migratory birds.
11 February of the present year the veterinary service of city selected 9 tests of the birds (three corpses of bird it was discovered into The the balaklavskiy to bay, and also in the bays reed and on the beach "omega"), that were directed to the Crimean republic laboratory of veterinary medicine for a study for the highly pathogenic influenza of bird.
"today we obtained positive results on all 9 tests, whiches indicate the presence of the virus of bird influenza in wild migratory bird", stated the chief of vetupravleniya.
The above translation describes the detection of H5N1 in wild migratory birds on the Crimea peninsula. The detection is not a surprise. Ukraine has already reported two outbreaks in poultry this season, as have multiple locations near the shores of the Black Sea (see satellite map). These poultry deaths signal H5N1 presence in wild birds in the region.
More H5N1 in the region in wild birds and poultry farms is expected.
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