Russian vets have found bird flu in a village in the southern Urals and suspected an outbreak of the disease in an neighbouring region, the emergency ministry said on Saturday.
In the village of Sunaly in the Chelyabinsk region in southern Urals, 31 chicken died and local authorities found bird flu in six samples out of 12, an emergency ministry official in Moscow told Reuters.
A Chelyabinsk emergency ministry official said vets had found the H5N1 strain and suspected that the infection came with migrating birds. "There are 1,060 birds in the village," the official said. "They will all be killed. A quarantine was imposed from today. Vaccination of all 89 people in the village will start on Monday."
Authorities are also investigating another suspected outbreak in Russia's Altai region.