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Article: Agriculture minister warns possible bird flu outbreak in Bulgaria
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- February 14, 2006
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Agriculture minister warns possible bird flu outbreak in Bulgaria
SOFIA, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Bulgaria's Agriculture and Forestry
Minister Nihat Kabil has warned the country of a possible bird flu
outbreak following the confirmation of the lethal H5N1 strain in dead
swans, local newspaper Trud reported on Monday.
"We should not be much surprised if in the coming days the first
outbreak of bird flu takes place in Bulgaria, because signals have
already emerged all over the country, except the southwestern
region," the minister was quoted as saying.
However, Kabil said, the ministry and the National Veterinarian
Bureau have not received any news of mass deaths among poultry bred