Investigators have determined that a strain of bird flu virus infecting fowl in Russia is the type that can infect humans, the Agriculture Ministry said Friday.
The virus caused the deaths of hundreds of birds in a section of Siberia this month, but no human infections have been reported.
In a brief statement, the ministry identified the virus as avian flu type A H5N1.
That story is from today's Washington Post, thanks to Jon Rundle for the link. The news comes one week after initial reports of birds dying in a Novosibirsk village.