Guest Guest Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 It's spreading people, please please please please please prepare already...*sigh* Bulgaria reports first bird flu case Bulgaria has discovered its first case of H5 bird flu in a swan found in the waters of the Danube river, authorities said, and samples will be sent to Britain to test whether it is the strain that can kill people. Sandwiched between Romania and Turkey, both of which have been hit by outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 strain, Bulgaria has been seen as a possible destination for the virus. "Our teams found a wild swan in the Danube river near the town of Vidin - the tests on the swan showed it was infected with the H5 virus," Agriculture Minister Nihat Kabil told a news conference. He said he had put his veterinary offices on high alert but the discovery of one infected swan did not mean there was a danger of wider outbreaks. The swan was found alive on January 31 at an industrial site near the border with Romania and Serbia. It died after showing symptoms of shaking and partial paralysis. Bulgaria is not able to conduct the complex tests which can tell whether a strain of H5 is the highly pathogenic H5N1, which has killed at least 86 people and millions of birds since 2003. Human victims contract the virus through close contact with infected birds. -Reuters http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200602/s1562298.htm Link to comment
gardnmom Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 Thanks for the heads up........ Link to comment
twilap Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 Wow, thanks for the info! Link to comment
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