久久亚洲国产成人影院-久久亚洲国产的中文-久久亚洲国产高清-久久亚洲国产精品-亚洲图片偷拍自拍-亚洲图色视频

  Home>News Center>World
         
 

Romania culls poultry as EU braces for bird flu
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-10-16 20:04

Romanian authorities slaughtered more domestic fowl on Sunday after the deadly strain of bird flu was detected in the Danube delta, as officials elsewhere in Europe prepared for a possible pandemic.

British laboratory tests confirmed on Saturday that the H5N1 strain of the disease had reached mainland Europe for the first time, after it was identified in three ducks found dead in the Romanian Danube delta village of Ceamurlia de Jos.

Experts fear the H5N1 virus, which has killed more than 60 people and caused the death of millions of birds in Asia since 2003, could mutate and spread easily among humans, creating a pandemic that might kill tens of millions.

Romanian Agriculture Minister Gheorghe Flutur said the outbreak was limited to Ceamurlia and Maliuc, 40 km (25 miles) north. All 18,000 domestic birds in Ceamurlia were killed and culling of Maliuc's less than 3,000 poultry was under way.

"On a 10-kilometre (six-mile) radius around Ceamurlia de Jos, the tests (for bird flu) are negative," Flutur told reporters.

The Danube delta, Europe's largest wetlands near the Black Sea, is a major way station for migratory wild birds coming from Russia, Scandinavia, Poland and Germany and heading for warmer North Africa, including the Nile delta, for winter.

A Romanian health worker sprays dissinfectant in the village of Vulturul, 300km (186 miles) east of Bucharest, Romania Saturday Oct. 15, 2005.
A Romanian health worker sprays dissinfectant in the village of Vulturul, 300km (186 miles) east of Bucharest, Romania Saturday Oct. 15, 2005. [AP]
Despite the Romanian assurances, Britain's chief medical officer said on Sunday his country was braced for a pandemic of bird flu that could result in at least 50,000 deaths there.

The official, Liam Donaldson, echoed previous warnings by saying history suggested the bird flu virus could combine with a human flu virus and become easily transmissible.

"Once in a while, every 10 to 40 years, the flu virus mutates into a strain which we haven't got natural immunity to," he told BBC TV. He said a normal winter flu kills more than 12,000 people in Britain.

"If we had a (bird flu) pandemic the problem would be the existing vaccines don't work, we would need a new vaccine and people don't have natural immunity," said Donaldson.

"So the estimate we are working toward is around 50,000 excess deaths from flu, but it could be a lot higher than that -- it depends on whether the strain is mild or serious."

No human cases of bird flu have so far been reported from either Romania or Turkey, where H5N1 was also identified in birds last week.

A Turkish Health Ministry official said on Saturday that nine people under observation in hospital for possible bird flu had been allowed to go home as tests showed they were not infected.

Page: 12



Hurricane Wilma batters Florida
All 117 feared dead in Nigerian plane crash
Quake relief inadequate, UN says
 
  Today's Top News     Top World News
 

Anniversary of Taiwan's recovery celebrated

 

   
 

New bird flu outbreak in China reined in

 

   
 

Singapore PM: China's growth 'good for Asia'

 

   
 

US to transfer nuclear reactor tech to China

 

   
 

Koizumi still hopes for summit with China

 

   
 

Rails seizure shakes a nation's conscience

 

   
  Draft Constitution adopted by Iraqi voters
   
  Iraqi death toll much higher than US
   
  Bird flu conference defers to WHO for preparedness
   
  Japan extradites two in alleged 9/11 fraud
   
  Gitmo hunger striker wants tube removed
   
  Islamic Jihad leader buried amid violence
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  Related Stories  
   
US health secretary winds up bird flu trip to Asia
   
China has a better vaccine for bird flu
   
Europe grapples with bird flu issue
  News Talk  
  Are the Republicans exploiting the memory of 9/11?  
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: 欧美午夜伦y4480私人影院 | 久久精品二区 | 69精品免费视频 | 国产精品视频久久久 | 久久精品爱国产免费久久 | 国产精品爱久久久久久久 | 免费国产黄网站在线观看视频 | 免费一级特黄3大片视频 | 中文字幕一二三四区2021 | 一区一精品 | 国产成人在线视频网站 | 欧美色欧美亚洲高清在线视频 | 日韩免费黄色片 | 撸天堂| 69xxxx欧美老师 | 欧美日本俄罗斯一级毛片 | 久久精品中文字幕第一页 | 两性免费视频 | 中文一区二区在线观看 | 一级做a爰在线就看 | 亚洲视频在线看 | 日韩精品亚洲专区在线观看 | 国产美女91视频 | 久草在线青青草 | 女人张开腿给男人桶爽免费 | 宅男毛片| 日本特黄特色大片免费视频网站 | 国产成人艳妇在线观看 | 亚洲人成综合在线播放 | 91色综合综合热五月激情 | 美国做受三级的视频播放 | 69性欧美高清影院 | 波多野结衣一级视频 | 亚洲三级小视频 | 91成人免费视频 | 国产成人久久精品一区二区三区 | 最新99国产成人精品视频免费 | 国产成人亚洲精品一区二区在线看 | 女人把腿劈开让男人桶的网站 | 亚洲一区二区三区影院 | 免费观看a毛片一区二区不卡 |