Avian Influenza H5N8 — Russia
Russia and Kazakhstan have reported more highly pathogenic avian flu outbreaks in poultry, Russia’s involving H5N8 and Kazakhstan’s due to an H5 virus, according to the latest notifications from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).
In Russia, animal health officials have reported 4 more H5N8 outbreaks, all in backyard birds in earlier affected oblasts in the south western part of the country: Kurgan, Tyumen, and Omsk. The outbreaks began from 23 to 25 Sep 2020, killing 234 of
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