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* Israel reports new bird flu outbreak in poultry

AFP, January 3, 2008

JERUSALEM, Jan 3, 2008 (AFP) - Israel announced on Thursday that it had detected the H5N1 strain of bird flu that is dangerous to humans in poultry near a kindergarten in a northern town on the Mediterranean coast.

The agriculture ministry said 18 contaminated birds had been found dead in a pets' corner near a kindergarten in the town of Binyamina.

A series of tests had confimed that the fowl died of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain, the ministry said in a statement, adding that a situation room had been set up to try to prevent the spread of the virus.

Authorities have banned the transport of animals within a three-kilometre (two-mile) radius of Binyamina, a coastal town north of Tel Aviv, as a precaution.

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