Bird Flue Spreads to Tula Village
The actions of unprecedented safety have been taken in Yandovka following the disclosure that the bird flue might have reached that village of Tula Region and approached Moscow. Yandovka villagers, where over 300 chickens, ducks and geese died in the seven private farms over a few days, have been offered to sell all poultry at 100 ruble per unit. The authorities have blocked all access roads and introduced the quarantine.
The tissue samples from Yandovka's dead poultry were forwarded for bird flue virus tests to Moscow and Vladimir Region. The main symptoms are joints’ induration, heads thrown back and higher temperature, i.e. the bird flue (virus H5N1), which outbreak was registered in Siberia in summer, might have approached that village, carried, perhaps, by wild ducks. The test results are expected by late this week.
No cases of people with some strange diseases have been reported so far, said Lidiya Shishkina, chief sanitary physician of the Tula Region. Preventive vaccination against the ordinary flue is currently underway there, Yandovka residents are vaccinated urgently and free of charge, with all costs referred to the municipal budget, local physicians pointed out.
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