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Third bird flu site in Moscow Region · 2007-02-18 13:02
A third avian flu outbreak has been detected at a private farm in the Moscow Region, the acting governor said Saturday.
"A resident of the Podolsk District [south of Moscow] bought a chicken on Moscow’s Ptichy pet market, and forty-four birds at his farmstead died as a result," Alexei Panteleyev said.
Russia’s chief epidemiologist, Gennady Onishchenko, on Friday confirmed bird flu as the cause of poultry deaths in two other households outside the capital ??“ in the southern Domodedovo District and in Odintsovo, to the west.
The animal and plant health watchdog, Rosselkhoznadzor, said earlier Saturday the dead birds there have been traced to the same Moscow market and that they were presumably brought in from other regions.
According to RIA Novosti, Russia recorded its first cases of bird flu in August 2005, but until now, outbreaks have occurred only in southern provinces and in Siberia.
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