MOSCOW, November 3 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Agriculture Ministry said Thursday that bird flu had been confirmed in 12 Russian villages and that 20 more could be contaminated.
The disease has been registered in a village in the Omsk region and in three villages in the Altai Territory, both in Siberia. Another is suspected of contamination in Altai.
Two villages were hit in the Chelyabinsk region, and three in the Kurgan region (both in the Urals), with four more areas suspected of an outbreak.
Two villages have been infected in the central Russian region of Tambov, about 250 miles southeast of Moscow and one village has the disease in the Tula region, about 120 miles south to the Russian capital.
Sixteen villages in the Siberian Novosibirsk region could also have instances of bird flu.
