Officers of the traffic police check cars driving to Pavlovskoe village of the Moscow Region. The bird flu quarantine was announced in Pavlovskoe. The poster reads: "Quarantine."
Photo: Dmitry Lebedev
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Bird Flu of Moscow Region Threatens Human Beings
The variety of the Moscow Region’s bird flu is dangerous for human-beings, the RIA Novosti news agency reported. The birds in five districts of the Moscow Region have been infected with the H5N1 strain of the flu that could pass to a man, said Alexey Alekseenko, briefer of Russia’s Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Control Service, Rosselkhoznadzor.
The infected bird was bought on the Ptichii Rynok (Bird’s Market) in the southeastern Moscow. The market was closed February 17 and the experts are to determine the exact type of the flu during a day.
In the Moscow Region, the bird flu was registered only in the private farms, so the virologists of the Virus Institute of Russian Academy of Medical Science claim the infected birds couldn’t have reached the markets of Moscow.
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