H5N1 bird flu outbreaks registered in Kostroma and Nerekhta

According to ornithologists and veterinarians, the pathogen was introduced by migratory flocks of migratory birds that returned after wintering in the Black and Caspian Seas, Africa and Asia. It has been found in tissue samples from dead gulls.

On Monday, May 22, by order of the governor of the Kostroma region, Sergei Sitnikov, access to the reservoirs where the dead birds were found was blocked. A quarantine has been established within a radius of 500 meters . Within a radius of 10 kilometers, there are bans on the import and export of poultry and hatching eggs, the preparation of feed, the walking of livestock, the holding of agricultural exhibitions, fairs and other events associated with the risk of spreading the virus.

Specialists of veterinary services go around private farmsteads, personal subsidiary farms and farms and hold conversations about the prevention of outbreaks of bird flu with their owners. Vaccination will be organized at large poultry farms . Tighter control of the sale of poultry products.