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Athens News Agency: News in English, 05-10-17
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[01] First case of bird flu in Greece reported on Oinousses farm
[01] First case of bird flu in Greece reported on Oinousses farm
Minister of Agricultural Development and Foods Evangelos Basiakos
announced on Monday that a turkey on a small farm on the island of
Oinousses in the eastern Aegean tested positive for the H5 virus,
adding Greece to the list of countries with reported cases of avian
flu.
According to Basiakos, the farmer reported suspicious symptoms he had
detected in the turkeys, some of which had died, on October 13.
Chios' Veterinerary Service took samples from the dead birds and sent
them to the Athens Centre of Veterinary Institutes, which found one of
nine samples to be H5 positive.
New samples will be taken and analysed by the Thessaloniki Centre of
Veterinary Institutes to confirm the accuracy of results.
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