Qinghai H5N1 Suspected in Dead Wild Birds in Austria
Recombinomics Commentary
July 4, 2007
In a lake in district Gmunden in Austria exist since Tuesday there is the suspicion on bird flu. That communicated the responsible Gesundheitslandesrätin Silvia Stöger (s).
Altogether eight dead birds were found. Five hood divers and three Blesshühner were on Monday and on Tuesday in the municipality old cathedrals at the Traunsee
The above translation describes dead wild birds on a lake in mountainous western Austria, near the border with Bavaria. Bavaria has already reported nine confirmed infections in Nuremberg, as well as three confirmed infections in Saxony and one in Thuringen. Last year, German and Austria reported the largest number of H5N1 positive wild birds. Moreover, this year a wild bird in Lednice has also tested positive, near the northern border of Austria, near Slovakia and Hungary.
Thus, at this time there are five H5N1 confirmed locations in Germany and the Czech Republic, and suspect wild bird deaths in France and Austria. These daily increases in confirmed or suspected H5N1 infections in dead wild birds provide additional evidence that H5N1 is causing undetected or unreported H5N1 fatal infections in wild birds in adjacent countries in Western Europe.
More details on the pending tests in France and Austria would be useful
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