World slow to face bird flu threat
Download On a lake in western Siberia, flocks of ducks and geese are roaming free. Here, people are ignoring warnings from their government that all domestic poultry should be kept indoors because of the risk of bird flu. There have been bird flu outbreaks in dozens of Russian villages in the past fortnight, many in this area. The virus was brought here from Asia by migrating wild birds. Ornithologists in Russia say that wild fowl will soon be moving on from here before autumn comes.
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