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Romania- Avian Influenza
16 Mar 2010
Reuters India [edited]
Romania has identified an outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm close to Ukraine and enforced a 20 km [12.5 mi]-wide surveillance zone around it, the European Union's executive said on Tuesday [16 Mar 2010].
The outbreak of the H5N1 virus in the commune of Letea near the Ukrainian border is the first detected in Europe since it was found in a wild duck in Germany a year ago [2009].
16 Mar 2010
Reuters India [edited]
Romania has identified an outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm close to Ukraine and enforced a 20 km [12.5 mi]-wide surveillance zone around it, the European Union's executive said on Tuesday [16 Mar 2010].
The outbreak of the H5N1 virus in the commune of Letea near the Ukrainian border is the first detected in Europe since it was found in a wild duck in Germany a year ago [2009].
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27 Mar 2010 Suspected H5N1 outbreak in Romania
Sapa-AFP via iol.co.za [edited][ProMed]
A suspected bird flu outbreak has been reported in a remote Romanian village. It was reported that samples of 2 dead hens were sent for confirmation of the potentially deadly H5N1 virus to a laboratory in Britain.
The poultry in the small private farm at a village on the Danube Delta were slaughtered and the area disinfected.
27 Mar 2010 Suspected H5N1 outbreak in Romania
Sapa-AFP via iol.co.za [edited][ProMed]
A suspected bird flu outbreak has been reported in a remote Romanian village. It was reported that samples of 2 dead hens were sent for confirmation of the potentially deadly H5N1 virus to a laboratory in Britain.
The poultry in the small private farm at a village on the Danube Delta were slaughtered and the area disinfected.
13 Mar 2010
OIE WAHID (World Animal Health Information Database) Disease Information 2010;
23(6) [edited][ProMed]
Summary
Report type: Immediate notification
Start date 05 Mar 2010
Date of 1st confirmation of the event 09 Mar 2010
Report date 09 Mar 2010
Date submitted to OIE 09 Mar 2010
Reason for notification: Reoccurrence of a listed disease
Date of previous occurrence 23 May 2008
Manifestation of disease: Sub-clinical infection
Causal agent: Low pathogenic avian influenza virus (H7)
Serotype: Pending
Nature of diagnosis Laboratory (advanced)
This event pertains to the whole country
New outbreaks
Outbreak 1 Fuglebjerg, Næstved, East
Date of start of the outbreak 05 Mar 2010
Outbreak status: Continuing (or date resolved not provided)
Epidemiological unit: Farm
Species Birds
Susceptible 195
Cases -
Deaths 0
Destroyed 195
Slaughtered 0
Affected Population: A breeding farm with 190 mallards and 5 hens. The suspicion arose on 5 Mar 2010 due to positive samples taken in connection with the surveillance programme for avian influenza.
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