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TEHERAN,
More bird flu cases were registered in the Kurdistan
province in northwest Iran which also borders Iraq,
the news agency Fars reported yesterday.
The local veterinarian organisation in the
provincial capital Sanandaj said that 40,000 birds
in 183 villages have been killed after being
positively diagnosed with the H5N1 virus.
The first sign of bird flu has been registered in
two parts of the marshlands in the northern Caspian
Sea city of Bandar Anzali where the veterinarian
organisation announced that the remains of 135 swans
were positively diagnosed with the bird flu.
The Iranian health ministry had been worried about
cases in the north-western part of the country
following the outbreak of bird flu in Turkish towns
bordering Iran.
DPA
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