(CIDRAP News) About 250 wild swans died of an H5 avian flu virus infection on the Volga River delta in southern Russia, according to an Agence France-Presse (AFP) report yesterday that cited Russian news agencies. Tests to determine if the strain was H5N1 had not been completed.
As a result of the swan die-off, a quarantine was being enforced in an area near the city of Astrakhan, AFP reported.
