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Russian Authorities Quarantine 17 Villages in Recent Bird Flu Outbreak
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Russian Authorities Quarantine 17 Villages in Recent Bird Flu Outbreak
Created: 22.02.2006 13:13 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:14 MSK, 36 minutes ago
MosNews
Local authorities have quarantined 17 villages in Russia?s southern Dagestan province after the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain was identified in three poultry farms, the Xinhua news agency reports, quoting a local medical official.
All transportation of fowl and poultry products from these affected villages have been banned, said Zaidin Dzambulatov, chief of Dagestan?s government veterinary committee. Access to 10 poultry farms has also been severely restricted, she emphasized.
On Wednesday, local authorities confirmed a third case of H5N1 virus in a Dagestan poultry farm after detecting the virus in two similar farms last week, which were the first confirmed cases of the virus in the Russian Caucasus region.
The region borders Azerbaijan where bird flu cases have been confirmed this month. Neighboring Turkey has also seen 21 cases of the virus being recorded in human beings.
Russia?s first H5N1 case was confirmed in Siberia last year, but, to date, no human case has been registered in Russia. So far at least 90 people have been killed by the human-infecting H5N1 strain around the world.
Experts are still concerned that the virus could mutate into a form, not just transmissible from animals to humans, but between humans, with the potential to lead to a devastating pandemic
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/02...uarantine.shtml
Russian Authorities Quarantine 17 Villages in Recent Bird Flu Outbreak
Created: 22.02.2006 13:13 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:14 MSK, 36 minutes ago
MosNews
Local authorities have quarantined 17 villages in Russia?s southern Dagestan province after the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain was identified in three poultry farms, the Xinhua news agency reports, quoting a local medical official.
All transportation of fowl and poultry products from these affected villages have been banned, said Zaidin Dzambulatov, chief of Dagestan?s government veterinary committee. Access to 10 poultry farms has also been severely restricted, she emphasized.
On Wednesday, local authorities confirmed a third case of H5N1 virus in a Dagestan poultry farm after detecting the virus in two similar farms last week, which were the first confirmed cases of the virus in the Russian Caucasus region.
The region borders Azerbaijan where bird flu cases have been confirmed this month. Neighboring Turkey has also seen 21 cases of the virus being recorded in human beings.
Russia?s first H5N1 case was confirmed in Siberia last year, but, to date, no human case has been registered in Russia. So far at least 90 people have been killed by the human-infecting H5N1 strain around the world.
Experts are still concerned that the virus could mutate into a form, not just transmissible from animals to humans, but between humans, with the potential to lead to a devastating pandemic