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Authorities confirm presence of avian flu virus in dead swan
Belgrade,
6 March 2006
The Veterinary Directorate at the Serbian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management stated that laboratory analyses of samples of a dead swan, performed at the Specialised Veterinary Institute in Kraljevo, have confirmed that the swan died of bird flu virus type H5. The dead swan was found on March 4 in the Veliki Backi canal in Backi Monostor, Sombor municipality.
The swan was found about 300 metres from the place where the carcass of another dead swan was discovered on March 2, when the bird flu virus was first suspected of being the cause of the swan's death. The territory regarded as an infected and endangered zone will not be expanded, because the decision of the Veterinary Directorate envisages the implementation of the necessary measures in the following 21 days.
The Specialised Veterinary Institute in Kraljevo completed the diagnostic analyses of samples of the swan found on March 4 in the river Drina near Bacevci, in the Bajina Basta municipality.
Director of the Veterinary Directorate Dejan Krnjajic approved the decision to declare the village of Bacevci an infected area within a three-kilometre radius of the location of infection. A ten-kilometre radius from the location will be declared area in danger of the infectious animal disease called avian flu.
The Specialised Veterinary Institute in Kraljevo completed the diagnostic analyses of samples of the swan found on March 4 in the river Drina near Bacevci, in the Bajina Basta municipality.
Director of the Veterinary Directorate Dejan Krnjajic approved the decision to declare the village of Bacevci an infected area within a three-kilometre radius of the location of infection. A ten-kilometre radius from the location will be declared area in danger of the infectious animal disease called avian flu.
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