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Ukraine

Bird-Flu Cases Reported In Northeastern Ukraine

(RFE/RL)

June 12, 2006 -- Ukrainian emergency officials say the first appearance of bird flu has been detected in northeastern Ukraine.

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June 12, 2006

Previously, bird flu had been registered only in Crimea and coastal areas in southern Ukraine.

A spokesman says he has no information whether the cases detected in a village in the Sumy region, near the border with Russia, are of the potentially lethal H5N1 type.

(Reuters, AP, Interfax-Ukraine)

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