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MOSCOW, Mon. --- Another region in European Russia, Tambov, located 400km southeast of Moscow, has confirmed an outbreak of deadly bird flu virus, a senior regional animal health official said today. He said the disease killed 12 hens at a private dacha in Morshansk district last week, after which local veterinary authorities destroyed 53 ducks and hens remaining in the locality, and imposed a quarantine on it. Moscow confirmed last Wednesday an outbreak of H5N1 in the Tula |
region, south of the capital. Authorities also confirmed bird flu in a village in the Chelyabinsk region in the southern Urals and said it suspected an outbreak of the disease in neighboring Altai region. Russia has been fighting bird flu since mid-July and has killed more than 600,000 domestic fowl. In Rome, the United Nations will launch an appeal for at least US$50 million (RM188 million) to improve animal surveillance in the fight against bird flu. |
The money was necessary to strengthen the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s capacity to detect the virus and the ability to provide an effective emergency response, said its chief veterinary officer, Joseph Domenech, today. The Rome-based FAO calculated the appeal to cover response over 18 months in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, Central Asia, and several regiosn in Africa. --- Agencies. |
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