ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey and Romania culled thousands of birds and imposed quarantine zones on Sunday to try to stop the spread of avian flu as scientists worked to discover if the outbreaks could be the deadly H5N1 strain.
Reports of Turkey's outbreak only surfaced on Saturday night, but nearly 2,000 turkeys died at the affected farm near the Aegean Sea on Tuesday and Wednesday. Some 2,500 birds were culled overnight in the affected area, local media said.
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