Russia: AI or poison chemicals?

[Shiloh]

Source: http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=190671&cid=17

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Avian influenza or poisoning chemicals?
27.06.2008 17:26
Kirill Kogan
GTRK "Moorman"

[/B]Residents of the village Milk Koly and raise the alarm. In these areas saw dead birds. Veterinarians and environmentalists have already dealt with the situation.

Tulomsky bridge. Living there are fewer birds. The coastline completely littered with carcasses of large gulls. [/B]The first alarm sounded environmentalists Kola district children's art houses.

Head of environmental department Kola district houses children's art Ludmila Bazhenova said: "Very little information. People still go here to relax, walk with children and dogs. Children can grab and poultry. All this is very dangerous and frightening".

Official versions of a few. One option - an outbreak of avian influenza. This is not so unlikely, even in our edges. Moscow, Krasnodar, Rostov area in the past year against the virus have already suffered. This year it is rampant in Primorye. A few days ago, local residents were struck by an unusual spectacle. Dozens of dead gulls ustilali land. Their meaning cast removed or veterinary services. Veterinary Service took samples for analysis. First tested in his laboratory, made the toxicological studies. Got a high content of mercury.

Chairman of Murmansk Regional Committee for the Protection of veterinary and animal Sergei Skomorokhov told: "We sent part of research in the city of Vladimir in the All-Russia Research Institute for Animal Welfare for research on bird flu."

Veterinarians warn: caution - above all. According to Sergei Skomorohova "if observe hygiene natural rights, the virus was not afraid. There is no need to take the dead birds bare hands. Washing your hands with soap, this will be long enough."

Avian influenza or poisoning chemicals? This will be clear only next week. It was then that the answer will come from a laboratory in Vladimir.

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[Oracle]

Re: Russia: AI or poison chemicals?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murmansk_Oblast

I would not bet against it being H5N1.

 

[Sally Furniss]

Re: Russia: AI or poison chemicals?

11 July 2008 14:59
Seagulls mass poison in the Kola Bay

The cause massive loss of gulls in the Kola Bay, occurred on the first day of July, most likely, was poisoning their salts of heavy metals, believes the chief veterinary doctor Sergei Skomorokhov Murmansk region.

Analysis of samples for avian flu and plague of birds, executed at the request of Russian specialists northerners Research Centre for Animal Welfare, has, as expected, negative result.

Several dozen dead gulls found local residents on the shore of the bay near the city landfill, where a huge flock focused these birds located a food among household waste. Environmentalists do not exclude hit here along with the production of waste and hazardous substances that, hitting a stomach gulls, and led them to death. Such cases recorded here in the past, ITAR-TASS.

In order to prevent veterinary service area has strengthened monitoring of poultry farms and domestic miniferm northernershttp://www.strana.ru/doc.html?id=103839&cid=1

 

[Giuseppe]

Re: Russia: AI or poison chemicals?

Just for remember that the environmental pollution in the sea around Kola paeninsula and Murmansk port is severe, due in part to huge amount of derelict former USSR warships cemetery and in part for the military activities with atomic-powered submarines.

In the area of Murmansk several older submarines lay decommissioned and sometimes nuclear material in the unused reactors are not removed and high level of radiation may be responsible for wildlife deaths.

Only recently some of these reactors have been removed but the environmental damages cannot measured accurately until military authorities will permit access to the areas.