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**Theresa42** · May 12, 2006, 10:45 PM

New bud of bird influenza in Rumania

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New bud of bird influenza in Rumania

BUCHAREST (EFE). - The bird influenza returns to Rumania with a new bud of the H5 virus in the locality of Horezu, district of Brasov, in the center of the country, inform sanitary sources.

The Institute for Diagnosis and Veterinary Health confirmed the existence of the H5 virus in the biological tests of domestic birds found died in this locality.

The authorities instituted the group of forty in Horezu and will precede to the sacrifice of all the poultries.

According to the Realitatea transmitter TV, an investigation is made on the origin of the ill birds, that could have been brought of another locality.

From October of 2005 and to principles of April, in Rumania 53 centers of bird influenza were indicated, mainly in the south and Southeastern of the country, throughout the Danube and in the Delta of this river, places located in the itineraries of the migratory birds.

In all this period some of transmission of this virus to the human beings was not indicated to case, although it has been pronounced under his more dangerous stock, H5N1.

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**HenryN** · May 12, 2006, 11:17 PM

Re: Romania - Bird flu virus detected in Romania, again

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DB · May 12, 2006, 11:21 PM

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H5N1 Bird Flu Returns to Romania

Recombinomics Commentary
May 12, 2006

The H5 bird flu virus was detected yesterday in 50 birds found dead in central Romania, officials said, less than a month after the virus was said to have been eradicated from the country.

The new outbreak in Hurezu village is the 53rd to have been found in the country,

The return of H5n1 to Romania is not unexpected. Wild birds brought H5N1 into Africa through Romania and as they migrate back to the north, they bring H5N1 back to Romania. H5N1 is widespread in Europe and the Middle East and has reappeared in three regions in Russia and to counties in Qinghai China.

The data further undermine the credibility of reports by wildlife and watershed conservation groups, who generated massive numbers of false negatives to bolster their views on the role of wild birds in the spread of H5N1 throughout Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. These groups fail to report the detection of low pathogenic avian influenza, reducing the credibility of their reports.

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**hawkeye** · May 14, 2006, 09:16 AM

Bird flu of H5 strain detected in dead poultry in central Romania

Bird flu of H5 strain detected in dead poultry in central Romania

The H5 strain of the bird flu virus has been found recently in dead poultry in central Romania, Romanian media reported on Saturday.

The fowls were found in two farm households and on a chicken farm in Brasov county. The local government has taken quarantine measures and sent the dead poultry to Bucharest to find out whether they had been infected with the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus.

Romanian authorities closed down its last bird flu quarantine zone in the east of the country on April 20. But the newly detected cases show that Romania still has a long way to go in its efforts to ward off the epidemic.

The first bird flu case in Romania was detected in the Danube delta last October. Since then, the epidemic had spread to more regions of the country, bringing to 53 the number of restricted quarantine zones.

No cases of human infections have been reported in the country.

Source: Xinhua

**Bruce** · May 14, 2006, 01:11 PM

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Romania to cull one million birds after bird flu outbreak

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</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> BUCHAREST : Some one million domestic fowl are to be culled in Romania after the potentially deadly H5N1 bird flu virus was found in three locations in the centre of the country, Romanian Agriculture Minister Gheorghe Flutur said on Sunday.

"Almost one million birds will be culled in total in central Romanian
regions that have been hit or could be hit by bird flu," Flutur said during a press conference.

"The discovery of bird flu in a farm is a first in Romania, since the first case of the disease was detected on October 7, 2005. We will quickly cull the farm's approximately 350,000 chicken, as well as other poultry in contaminated centres," he said.

According to an investigation by the anti-epizootic committee, a farm in Codlea already delivered poultry "illegally" to three counties in central and eastern Romania.

On Sunday evening, veterinary health authorities said they had seized almost three tonnes of chicken that could be infected by the bird flu virus in a supermarket in the eastern town of Galati.

The poultry meat was apparently delivered to the supermarket by the Codlea farm , according to the head of the Galati veterinary health bureau, Viorel Gheorghita, quoted by the news agency Mediafax.

After they had announced in late April that the H5N1 virus, which can be deadly to humans, had been eradicated in their country, Romanian authorities found new cases in the central town of Hurezu Friday.

On Sunday, the National Veterinary Health Agency (ANSVSA) said it had found the H5N1 virus in Fagaras, in the centre of the country, as well as in a poultry farm in Codlea.

According to ANSVSA president Ion Agafitei, this farm was "responsible" for spreading the virus, after it sold contaminated chickens to several farmers in Fagaras and Hurezu.

"Transporting poultry has been banned in the whole country and disinfection filters have been put in place in the affected regions," Flutur said.

Health Minister Eugen Nicolaescu also said the drug Tamiflu had been given out to residents in the affected regions, to prevent a possible human case of bird flu.

In total, cases of bird flu have been found in 56 locations in Romania and over 420,000 birds have been culled since the virus was found in poultry on October 7, 2005, in the Danube delta region, in the south-east of the country.

No human case of bird flu has been found in Romania to date. - AFP/de

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