Six wild birds were found dead near water collecting bank of the hydroelectric station of the town Novodnestrovsk, Ukraine

Six wild birds were found dead, on 20 and 21 February, on water collecting bank of the hydroelectric station of the town Novodnestrovsk, Ukraine. The bodies of 4 swans and 2 ducks were transported to the laboratory of Vinnita. The information was transmitted to Exceptional Situations Department of Chisinau by Moldovan frontier guards, who have taken it from their Ukrainian colleagues. In the same time, the head of the veterinary service of town Moghiliov-Podolsk, Vasili Iurciuc and engineer-chief of hydroelectric station, did not confirmed birds’ death. The head of the press service of Frontier Guard Service, Dumitru Osoianu, said that until now any deadly cases of wild birds in northern counties of Moldova were not registered. While European countries coordinate their efforts to fight bird flu, new suspected cases appear in the world, including on the territory of the European Union. Thus, French authorities confirmed on Wednesday a new case of bird flu at a wild duck found dead in the east of the country. In Kalmakia (Russian Federation), there were noted over 100 domestic birds dead of the disease Newcastle, considered a variant of the avian plague. A new bird flu focus appeared in Iraqi Kurdistan. Indian Minister of Health confirmed that, after 95human samples were analysed, 17 were put under strict medical supervision. It is talked about persons coming from two states of the west of the country, where over 200,000 birds were sacrificed. In Indonesia, a woman suspected of bird flu has died, and in India, the authorities are afraid of a real possibility of transmitting of the virus H5N1 to humans. Meanwhile, many African officials and experts, met in Dakar, to discuss the possibilities to prevent and fight the disease, which continue to expand in Nigeria and threatens neighbour countries. Since the end of 2003, over 90 persons Asia died because of this virus.