Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan Confirms Bird-Flu Case

(RFE/RL)

ASTANA, March 20, 2006 -- Kazakhstan's Health Minister says a dead swan found on the country's Caspian Sea coast had bird flu.

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March 20, 2006

Health Minister Yerbolat Dosayev said the swan was found in western Mangystau Province and that tests confirmed the presence of bird flu.

He did not say whether the swan has the deadly H5N1 strain of the disease. H5N1 can be lethal to humans who are in close contact with sick birds.

Several areas in northern Kazakhstan were quarantined last year during an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu there.

(Interfax, Reuters)

Affected Areas

Click on the map for a closer view of the areas within RFE/RL's broadcast region where cases of diseased fowl have been confirmed. Last updated on February 20.

BIRD FLU, or avian influenza, continues to menace scattered areas from East Asia, where the disease first appeared, to Southeastern and Eastern Europe and beyond. Authorities around the world are bracing themselves -- and, more importantly, planning and taking measures to fight the disease wherever it appears.

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