Nuremberg is located 120 kilometres from the border with the Czech Republic, where an outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm was confirmed on Thursday. Officials set up a four-kilometres exclusion zone around two lakes where the wild swans, geese and ducks were found over the past few days, local health officials said. Some 190 people around the world have died of bird flu since 2003, mainly through coming into close contact with infected poultry, according to the World Health...

To prevent spread of the virus, more testing and surveillance will be conducted within a six-mile radius of the farm and at the more than 1,000 poultry farms in the Shenandoah Valley, Bauhan said. Avian flu spreads when infected birds transmit the virus through saliva, nasal secretions and feces, and other birds have contact with contaminated secretions or excretions, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Although the subtype of avian flu found in the turkeys poses no risk to human...

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Jul 5, 2007 (CIDRAP News) France's agriculture ministry said today that three swans found dead in Moselle department in the eastern part of the country tested positive for H5N1 avian influenza, making France the third European country in recent weeks to report new outbreaks in wild birds. Printable Page France finds H5N1 in wild birds. Jul 5, 2007 (CIDRAP News) France's agriculture ministry said today that three swans found dead in Moselle department in the eastern part of the country...