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Bird flu reappears in Romania
01/12/2005 16:10 - (SA)
Bucharest - Three new outbreaks of bird flu have been detected in poultry in southeastern Romania, local government officials said on Thursday.
The governor of the Braila region, Nicolae Motri, said dozens of chickens had been found dead of the disease at Bumbacari and Dudescu.
He said he had ordered the slaughter of more than 8 000 birds in the two villages.
Earlier his counterpart in the Tuclea region, Ioan Boieru, said a new case of the H5 strain of bird flu had been detected in a duck and a chicken at Periprava in the Danube Delta.
"As from today, Thursday, we are going to start the slaughter of about 1 500 birds at Periprava," Boieru said.
Scientists will not know until further tests have been carried out whether the influenza is of the potentially lethal H5N1 strain, which has killed more than 60 people in Asia and which it is feared could cause a global flu pandemic
On Saturday, Health Minister Gheorghe Flutur announced the slaughter of 15 000 domestic birds in the eastern village of Scarlatesti following detection of the H5 virus in a turkey.
The Scarlatesti case was the first instance of bird flu outside the Danube delta, where tens of thousands of birds were slaughtered after bird flu was discovered in eight places.
- AFP
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