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ARMENIA STILL IMMUNE FROM BIRD FLU

KAPAN, MARCH 1, ARMENPRESS: A crow, a sparrow and an eagle were found dead in Armenia’s southernmost region of Syunik in the last week, but no strain of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus was found in them after the dead birds were examined at a laboratory in Yerevan.

Edgar Tokhsants, chief of the regional task force, set up to prevent the spread of the bird flu, said vaccination of domestic fowl in the region was going on for 30 days and will continue until all fowl is vaccinated. In January the Armenian government adopted an action plan designed to combat the potential outbreak of bird flu from neighboring countries of Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan which all reported cases of avian influenza in domestic and wild fowls..

Meantime the deadly strain of bird flu has been found in a cat in Germany, German health officials said Tuesday, the first time the virus has been identified in an animal other than a bird in central Europe. Health officials urged cat owners to keep pets indoors after the dead cat was discovered over the weekend on the Baltic Sea island of Ruegen, where most of the more than 100 wild birds infected by the H5N1 strain have been found.

The cat is believed to have eaten an infected bird, said Thomas Mettenleiter, head of Germany’s Friedrich Loeffler Institute. That is in keeping with a pattern of disease transmission seen in wild cats in Asia.

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