Bird flu was confirmed inside the borders of the European Union yesterday, Monday, Oct. 17, when Greek officials confirmed that at least one case had been detected on an island in the Aegean.
The Agriculture Ministry said the H5 virus had been detected in a turkey on the island of Chios. It was not yet clear whether the bird was infected by the H5N1 sub-strain, which has claimed at least 60 human lives in Asia.
Chios is in the eastern Aegean, near the coast of western Turkey, where an outbreak of bird flu at a turkey farm, confirmed as H5N1, has brought a major cull. The virus has also been found in wildfowl in Romania’s Danube delta.
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