Croatia culls poultry after first bird flu case


  • World
  • Sunday, 23 Oct 2005

GRUDNJAK FISH POND, Croatia (Reuters) - Croatian authorities on Saturday started culling all poultry around a fish pond where the country's first bird flu case was confirmed, and police sealed off the area. 

The officials said some 10,000 birds in around 1,000 farms and rural households would be killed in the next few days. 

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