bird flu

Romania’s sanitary veterinary and food safety authority found a possible outbreak of bird flu in a household in the village Plaur, in the southeastern Romanian county of Tulcea, the authority said in a news release Saturday.

Romania has confirmed a highly pathogenic bird flu outbreak at a poultry farm in Letea, the southeastern county of Tulcea, the European Commission said in a press release Tuesday.

Romania’s sanitary veterinary and food safety authority ANSVSA said Tuesday that no other bird flu cases were identified in the Danube Delta, Murighiol location, in Romania’s southeastern county of Tulcea, where the bird flu virus H5N1 was identified late November.

The Romanian Anti-Epizootic Command Center met, Saturday, in southeastern Romania county Tulcea, where they set the measures for the eradication of the bird flu outbreak. Hunters are tasked with organizing containment hunting parties targeting wild birds and with the collection of bird carcasses to be tested.