Two more cases of bird flu discovered in Hungary

Hungarian authorities are still waiting for the test results for the samples sent last week, although officials here have said they expect them to be positive for H5N1, based on preliminary tests in Budapest.
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All five swans infected with bird flu were found in and around the southern Hungarian town of Nagybaracska, where already last week authorities imposed a three-kilometre (two-mile) protection zone and a 10-kilometre surveillance area in accordance with European Union directives.
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Bird flu has continued to spread from Asia across Europe with H5N1 detected in Austria, Britain, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania, Russia, Slovenia and Ukraine.
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Fearing infection of local animal stocks by wild birds carrying the potentially lethal virus, a number of countries have ordered all poultry to be kept indoors. — AFP Two more cases of the H5-type bird flu were discovered in wild swans in southern Hungary in the same locality where last week three swans tested positive for the same virus.
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The MTI national news agency said the samples will be sent to the European Union-approved laboratory in Weybridge, England, where tests will determine if they were infected by the potentially lethal H5N1 strain of the virus, which has killed more than 90 people, mostly in southeast Asia and China.

Hungarian authorities are still waiting for the test results for the samples sent last week, although officials here have said they expect them to be positive for H5N1, based on preliminary tests in Budapest."

Source: todayonline

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