# 1111
Things have been pretty quiet in Russia since the outbreak, last February, stemming from a Moscow Pet market. Today's report comes from Krasnodar, in Southern Russia, a region that borders the Black Sea.
September 4, 2007
Russia confirms H5N1 bird flu strain at poultry farm
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Tuesday reported its third outbreak this year of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu after 410 birds died on a poultry farm in the country's south.
Another 414 birds were culled and strict quarantine measures were in place at the farm in Krasnodar region, Russia's animal and plant health watchdog, Rosselkhoznadzor, said in a statement.
"It's serious enough to bring in strict measures, including quarantine, to make sure it doesn't spread," Rosselkhoznadzor spokesman Alexei Alexeyenko said.
"An investigation is being carried out to determine the source of the infection," he said.
Tests carried out in regional laboratories confirmed the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain was responsible for the deaths of birds at the Lebyazhye-Chepiginskoye farm, in the same region where the virus was detected in dead domestic birds in January.
Russia's second outbreak of 2007 occurred in February, when several cases in towns around Moscow were traced to the capital's best-known pet market.
