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Bird Flu Kills Scores of Wild Swans in Central Russia
186 dead swans have been found in the central Russian republic of Kalmykia this month. Tests conducted by experts from the Emergencies Ministry show that the birds died of bird flu.The ITAR-TASS news agency quoted the southern regional centre of the Russian Emergencies Ministry as saying that the tests were carried out by scientists from the All-Russian Research Institute for Animal Health in the Vladimir region. On the orders of the administration head of the Laganskiy district of Kalmykia, the Severnyy, Dzhadykovskiy and Laganskiy rural municipal areas have been pronounced high risk zones, while veterinary quarantine has been introduced in the Krasinskiy rural municipal entity. Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-12-20 |
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