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    Posted: June 29 2007 at 5:38am

Czech birds culled as avian flu found

By Jan Cienski

Published: June 29 2007 03:00 | Last updated: June 29 2007 03:00

Czech authorities have culled thousands of birds at a poultry farm in the east of the country following the discovery of the H5N1 avian influenza virus.

A similar outbreak was discovered last week at a nearby turkey farm.

The Financial Times Limited 2007
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Swan dies of bird flu in Czech Republic
www.chinaview.cn 2007-06-28 18:44:54
 

    Special report: Global fight against bird flu

    PRAGUE, June 28 (Xinhua) -- The Czech Republic detected the bird flu virus in a dead swan in South Moravia area, local media reported Thursday.

    Czech veterinarians said the form of the bird flu virus was still unknown.

    The highly dangerous H5N1 bird flu was discovered at a broiler farm in Norin, east Bohemia area of the country on Wednesday, as some 60 chickens out of 27,800 broilers were affected.

    Norin is located 4 km from Tisova where the first Czech case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu among bred poultry was revealed at turkey farm last week. Both farms, Tisova and Norin, are owned by the same agriculture company.

    The first case of bird flu in the Czech Republic was found in March 2006 after which 13 cases of the disease have been registered. In all cases birds have been infected by the H5N1 virus, which also poses danger to human beings.

Editor: Lin Li
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This had been reported earlier in the week:
 
Czechs report bird flu in poultry at second farm
 
PRAGUE, June 27 (Reuters) - The Czech Agriculture Ministry reported a second outbreak of bird flu at a farm on Wednesday, about a week after tests confirmed the country's first case of a deadly form of the virus in poultry.

The Farm Ministry said the second farm was inside the surveillance zone just 4 km (2.5 miles) from a turkey farm where the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu was found last week.

All 28,000 birds at the Norin farm, about 150 km (94 miles) east of capital Prague, as well as poultry bred by the local smallholders would be culled, the ministry said.

"Extraordinary veterinary measures will be extended immediately to prevent a further spread of the infection," said Farm Minister Petr Gandalovic.

Veterinary officials said tests were expected to confirm by Friday if the poultry at the second farm also contained the H5N1 avian flu virus that can be deadly to humans.

"Given that the second farm is just 4 km from the first one, it is highly likely that the outbreak of H5N1 would be confirmed there as well," said veterinary authority spokesman Josef Duben.

Russia and Ukraine have banned poultry imports from the Czech Republic after the confirmation of the highly infectious H5N1 strain of bird flu in the country.

Neighbouring Germany has identified nine cases of the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu in wild birds.

Last year, some 13 European Union member states had confirmed cases of bird flu -- Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, Greece, Britain, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, France and Hungary.

Bird flu has been spreading across southeast Asia, killing two people in Vietnam this month, the first deaths there since 2005.

Globally, the H5N1 virus has killed nearly 200 people out of over 300 known cases, according to the World Health Organisation. None of the victims were from Europe.
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