KIEV, November 8 - Mass deaths of migrant birds were registered in the Southeastern Ukrainian town of Mariupol, a newspaper in the capital city of Kiev reported Tuesday.
Mariupol`s Chief Sanitary Inspector Heorhiy Husakov confirmed the mass deaths of migrant quails and gannets.
He said a local laboratory was testing the blood of dead birds. The Kiev Veterinary Academy is expected to make a final diagnosis and determine whether the birds were infected with bird flu.
The deaths come on the heels of mass fowl deaths from the deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza that have swept Ukraine`s eastern neighbor, Russia, and its neighbor to the south, Romania. The latest outbreak, which began in Asia, has already claimed human lives on that continent.
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