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Fears that Asian bird flu has spread to Europe as ducks die in Romania
Nicholas Watt in Brussels, Sarah Boseley and Riazat ****
Saturday October 8, 2005
The Guardian
Fears that the deadly Asian bird flu may have spread to Europe were heightened yesterday when the Romanian government confirmed that three ducks have died of a strain of the disease in the east of the country. Scientists in Britain are to conduct tests on samples to find out whether the domestic ducks were infected by the dangerous H5N1 strain, which has so far been confined to Asia.
The Romanian government warned that it feared that the ducks were infected with the strain, and strong security measures were put in place in the village of Ceamurlia, in eastern Romania, where the birds died late last month. Restrictions were placed on the movement of people and animals into and out of the village near the Black Sea and there were plans to vaccinate people. Nearly all the domestic fowls in the village have been slaughtered.....
...If it is confirmed that the ducks died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, Europe will be placed on high alert. The strain has killed 60 people in Asia and there are fears that the virus could soon develop into a form that passes more easily to humans. In the worst-case scenario, that could trigger a human flu pandemic.
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