Avian Influenza — Algeria
The Department of Forests Conservation in Ghardaia province has announced that more than 1800 dead birds have been collected since September [2016] to date in the wetland of Lake “Sebkhet El-Melah” [“The salt marsh” or “salt wetland”], located at the southern exit from the capital of the administrative district of El-Menia (275 km or 171 mi south of Ghardaia). [The capital of the Menia district is the Oasis town El Goléa; map at ].
These birds have been of different species — most of them
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