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...that bird flu has touched down in Britain, Romania, Russia and Turkey, fear is growing that the virus will sweep through Africa and the Middle East too. Last week, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (fao) said that the risk of a major outbreak had "markedly increased," warning that some countries in these regions were unprepared. "We would have to mobilize donors, the international community and the veterinary services massively to respond," fao chief veterinary officer Joseph Domenech told Time. The fao suspects that wild birds could spread the lethal h5n1 virus - which can jump to humans and has killed...
...Roche has donated Tamiflu to Turkey and Romania, where the H5N1 influenza virus has lately made an appearance, and given 30 million doses to the World Health Organization. But until its recent change of heart, the company had maintained that while it can't produce as much as the world is demanding, it alone would retain the right to sell the medicine. Anyone hoping to replicate the 10-step manufacturing process, it had warned, would spend around three years ramping up production from scratch...
...Days after the flu virus first appeared on the shores of Europe, local farmers in the former communist country of Romania were struggling to cope. The Danube Delta is one of the most pristine wildernesses in Europe, teeming with wildlife, rare species and hundreds of thousands of migratory birds that pass annually through the region on the way to their wintering grounds in north Africa. This year, those birds are carrying with them a dangerous infection that doctors fear could, if it makes the leap to humans, unleash the deadliest flu pandemic since...
...Another 15 swans died Monday in the hamlet of Popina in the northeast of the Delta, close to the border with Ukraine. This makes three outbreaks of bird flu to be confirmed in Romania. Further south, the eastern Greek island of Inousses is under watch while tests are conducted on an infected turkey. Results won't be in for days and authorities have yet to order a mass slaughter of fowl there, but state vets are also looking into scores of other bird flu scares reported in mainland Greece within in the last 24 hours...
...they were infected with H5N1, the avian influenza strain responsible for 60 human deaths in Asia since 2003. Experts now fear the virus is inexorably winging its way toward Europe. Turkish authorities quickly imposed a quarantine around the infected farm, culling 8,600 birds. But another H5N1 outbreak hit Romania's Danube delta wetlands, across the Black Sea from Turkey. In the village of Ceamurlia de Jos, Romanians began killing 50,000 fowl. Local farmers wept as they watched their livelihoods destroyed. Romanian poultry products and Turkish live birds were immediately banned by the European Union, as governments sought...