男女羞羞视频在线观看,国产精品黄色免费,麻豆91在线视频,美女被羞羞免费软件下载,国产的一级片,亚洲熟色妇,天天操夜夜摸,一区二区三区在线电影
  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: 凉城县| 铁岭市| 策勒县| 墨脱县| 阜平县| 光泽县| 黄石市| 靖西县| 黄冈市| 靖州| 宣恩县| 碌曲县| 岢岚县| 鱼台县| 米易县| 米泉市| 澜沧| 永宁县| 夹江县| 探索| 屯门区| 师宗县| 二手房| 泗水县| 榆林市| 黎川县| 富顺县| 丹东市| 鄂伦春自治旗| 静海县| 娱乐| 丹江口市| 南岸区| 邵阳市| 涡阳县| 芒康县| 宜城市| 谢通门县| 许昌市| 奉节县| 沁水县| 衡东县| 化隆| 新营市| 文安县| 若尔盖县| 体育| 那坡县| 连州市| 高安市| 河间市| 密云县| 东城区| 会同县| 清水河县| 白玉县| 河西区| 宣城市| 喜德县| 古浪县| 司法| 汉源县| 潍坊市| 合川市| 沅江市| 威海市| 通河县| 晋中市| 大新县| 邮箱| 公安县| 玉门市| 西丰县| 茶陵县| 合阳县| 云林县| 前郭尔| 五家渠市| 吉首市| 都江堰市| 临澧县| 杭锦后旗|