The World Organization for Animal Health announced today, Tuesday, that Croatia has detected an outbreak of the highly infectious "H5N5" strain of the avian influenza virus at a poultry farm. The Paris-based organization reported, citing Croatian authorities, that the outbreak has resulted in the infection of five domestic birds out of a flock of 19,600 in a farm located in the Brodsko-Posavska region near the border with Bosnia. Highly infectious avian influenza has spread globally in recent years, leading to the culling of an estimated hundreds of millions of domestic birds.
Outbreak of a Dangerous Strain of Bird Flu in Croatia
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