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| Bird flu resurfaces in Germany - city officials The Star, 25 June 2007 | ||
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The southern German city of Nuremberg said on Sunday that the bird flu virus had been discovered in the bodies of eight dead birds found in the state of Bavaria, Germany's first confirmed cases this year. The corpses of two more birds are being analyzed to see if they also contained the H5N1 avian flu virus, a city spokeswoman said. |
"The city of Nuremberg and the Veterinary Office for the region of Fuerth have established a quarantine zone in the affected areas and will continue observation activity around Nuremberg," the city said in a statement. The bodies have been sent to a national laboratory to determine if the virus is the highly pathogenic strain of the H5N1 virus, it added. |
Among the birds found in two lakes near Nuremberg were swans, a duck and a goose, the statement said.
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