January 21, 2008

Bird flu detected on Ukraine's Crimea peninsula

The H5N1 bird flu has been detected in fowl at a farm on Ukraine's Black Sea Crimea peninsula, emergency officials said on Friday (January 18, 2008).

The Emergency Situations Ministry said that the infected farm in the village of Rivne had been placed under quarantine after more than 150 chickens died from the bird flu.

The last registered outbreak of bird flu in Ukraine was in June 2006.