An outbreak of bird flu was registered at a poultry farm in Mari El

According to the regional committee of veterinary medicine, the genome of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus was isolated from samples of pathological material. RNA of the same pathogen was contained in the remains of a crow found near the enterprise.

After an extraordinary meeting of the anti-epizootic commission under the government of the republic, the state veterinary service began measures to prevent the spread of bird flu. Quarantine was introduced in the village of Privolzhsky .