Reuters reports the Turkish outbreak of bird flu is the type dangerous to humans and European authorities assume the cases discovered in Romania are of the same strain:
“The virus found in Turkey is avian flu H5N1 high pathogenic virus,” EU Health and Consumer Protection chief Markos Kyprianou told a news conference.
Romania also said it had detected bird flu in three ducks but more testing is required to determine whether it was the deadly H5N1 strain.
The European Union has banned the import of live birds, poultry meat and feathers from Romania after officials there confirmed the presence of bird flu.
Turkey detected bird flu last Saturday after 2,000 birds died on a farm near the Aegean Sea. Turkey has "culled" thousands of birds to prevent the virus from spreading.
Officials in Romania also plans to slaughter thousands of birds.
It doesn't seem likely that you can prevent the bird flu from spreading when you are dealing with migrating birds.
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