The State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Rights Protection of Ukraine recorded avian influenza cases in private households in Chernivtsi and Odesa regions.
The main department of the authority said that over a thousand hens and geese in private households died. The avian influenza virus was proven.
When monitoring private households in Chortoryia settlement of Chernivtsi region due to the death of wild swans in January, three hens also died. Testing samples proved highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak.
Measures are being taken to localize the disease on the site of the outbreak and prevent the spread of bird flu virus.
