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Bird flu outbreak in Romania

BRUSSELS (March 17 2010): The first outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu in Europe for a year has been identified in a backyard POULTRY farm in Romania, the European Commission announced Tuesday. The outbreak, in Tulcea county, close to the Ukrainian border, was discovered on Monday and prompted immediate security measures, the EU's executive arm said in a statement.

These include the killing of all POULTRY in the infected farm and the establishment of a three kilometre (two mile) protection zone and a wider "surveillance zone" around the farm with strict controls on movements in or out. The Romanian case is the first detection of the highly avian influenza H5N1 in the European Union in a year.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2010

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