# 1887
Location of Ukraine (orange)
Tests are pending, and so we don't know at this moment if these poultry deaths are due to the H5N1 virus. Bird flu is, however, suspected.
This from Monsters & Critics.
Thousands of dead chickens at Ukraine poultry farm
Apr 18, 2008, 10:11 GMT
Kiev - Health inspectors discovered thousands of dead chickens at a Ukrainian poultry farm, with bird flu suspected as the cause, the Interfax news agency reported Thursday.
The die-off took place at a poultry-processing plant near the city Shpol, in the northern Cherkassy province.
It was the second reported case of an apparent mass bird infection this year, following the January death of dozens of chickens to the H5N1 bird-flu virus in a Crimea province poultry factory.
Health officials were testing carcasses and live birds to determine the cause of the mass sickness at the Shpol factory. H5N1 however was not yet confirmed, according to the report.
State inspectors were sampling domestic and wild bird populations for presence of the disease in the region, and destroying the dead chickens.
Thousands more live chickens will also be destroyed at the factory if the present of the bird flu virus is confirmed, according to the report.
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