- The H5 strain of bird flu was found in chickens and geese
in 2 districts on the Crimean Peninsula in the Black Sea, the Ukrainian
Agricultural Policy Ministry's press service said Saturday [3 Dec 2005],
according to Russia's Interfax news agency.
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- The strain was found in the villages of Nekrasovka and
Sovetskoye in the Sovetsky district of the Crimea, and in the villages
of Izobilnoye and Emelyanovka in the Nizhnegorsky district, the news agency
said.
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- The birds tested positive for H5 strains of bird flu,
but it was not clear whether they have the H5N1 strain researchers fear
could cause a human pandemic. Samples will be sent to laboratories in Britain
or Italy, the Agricultural Policy Ministry told Interfax.
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- On Friday [2 Dec 2005], mass poultry deaths were reported
in villages in the Sovetsky, Nizhnegorsky and Dzhankoi districts, Interfax
said. A total of 1500 birds have died.
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- Ukrainian Agricultural Policy Minister Oleksandr Baranivsky
said a crisis team of experts and scientists were working in the Crimea,
Interfax reported.
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- To date, the only human cases of H5N1 bird flu have been
confined to Asia, but the deadly strain appears to be spreading among migratory
birds.
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- ProMED-mail
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- The Crimea (officially Autonomous Republic of Crimea),
is a peninsula and an autonomous republic of Ukraine (see map
). It borders the Kherson region from the North; the rest of the border
is the Black Sea in the South and West and the Sea of Azov in the East.
Its area is 26 100 square km with a population of 2.0 million (2004). The
capital is Simfeopol.
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- The Azov Sea basins, and the Crimean territory, are situated
on a main flyway of various species of migrating birds.
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- Seropositive swans were detected in October [2005] in
Romania, adjacent to the Ukrainian border.
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- Relevant ornithological information, including data from
(Russian) literature on epidemiological surveillance (which is known to
have been undertaken in migratory birds in this region during the second
half of the previous century), will help. - Mod. AS.
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- Patricia A. Doyle, DVM, PhD Bus Admin, Tropical Agriculture
Economics
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