Thursday, December 08, 2005

New bird-flu outbreaks reported in Ukraine

UKRAINE - Avian-influenza outbreaks have been reported in six more Ukrainian villages.

Following Tuesday's announcement of the imposition of a state of emergency covering the affected autonomous region of Crimea, Ukrainian officials have sealed off affected areas with a 2-mile exclusion zone and are culling domestic poultry within it.

About 28,000 birds have been seized in house-to-house searches, and officials are enforcing protective measures to include quarantine and the banning of movement of live birds from within
the exclusion zone.

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