KIEV, December 19 (RIA Novosti) - Bird flu quarantine will be imposed this week throughout the Crimea, an autonomy on the Black Sea, a source in the Ukrainian Ministry of Agrarian Policy told local television Monday.
According to the station, Minister Oleksandr Baranivskiy has said this measure may help prevent the virus from spreading throughout the autonomy and to other Ukrainian regions.
Bird flu has been registered in 15 Crimean settlements. Russian and British laboratories confirmed the presence of the potentially lethal H5N1 strain of the virus, which has already claimed people's lives in Southeast Asia.
More than 60,000 fowl have been slaughtered, but the virus has continued to spread, which has prompted the new measures.
