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 MOSCOW (AP) - Tests were being carried out on poultry found dead in several new areas in suburban Moscow to determine whether the birds had died of the same H5N1 bird flu strain that has affected birds in other areas on the outskirts of the Russian capital, officials said Tuesday.
The birds that died had been purchased at the same animal market just outside Moscow that has been the source of birds infected with H5N1 in at least four districts around the capital, according to Nikolai Vlasov, a top official with the federal agriculture oversight agency Rosselkhoznadzor. The market has remained closed for disinfection.
Vlasov told RIA Novosti news agency it would take a few days to identify the cause of the poultry deaths.
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