Deadly Strain of Bird Flu Found At Childrens Petting Zoo In Israel
January 5, 2008 by mimmson
Filed under Flu Pandemic - Top News Stories
A deadly strain of the bird flu virus has infected chickens in northern Israel, local daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported on its website on Thursday.
According to the report, the virus was found at a kindergarten petting zoo in the northern Israeli city of Binyamina, more than ten kilometers south to the city of Haifa.
The report said 18 of the 25 chickens in the petting zoo were found dead earlier Thursday morning.
The Haifa District Physician Prof. Shmuel Rishpon confirmed that the chickens were infected by the H5N1 bird flue virus.
Rishpon was quoted as saying that “The kindergarten staff has been given preventive medicines and as far as we know, none of the children or their parents came in contact with the birds.”
