Russia is stepping up measures to contain the spread of the deadly bird flu virus amid signs the outbreak is stabilizing, Reuters reported Thursday quoting Russia’s chief epidemiologist, but Kazakhstan said it was probing possible new cases.
“Deaths of wild fowl continue to occur, although less intensively,” Gennady Onishchenko, head of Russia’s state consumer rights watchdog and top epidemiologist, told reporters.
Read the entire article here. One of the latest measures taken by the government is to ban bird hunting.
