Information received on 7 October 2005 from Dr Gabriel Predoi, Director General, National Sanitary Veterinary and Food Safety Authority, Bucharest:

Report date: 7 October 2005.

An outbreak of avian influenza was reported in a farm in Ceamurlia-de-Jos, Tulcea County, in the eastern part of the country.

Reason for immediate notification: re-occurrence of a listed disease or infection in a country or zone/compartment following a report declaring the outbreak(s) ended (depending on the virus pathogenicity that will be identified).

Precise identification of agent: information not yet available.

Date of first confirmation of the event: 7 October 2005.

Date of start of the event: 4 October 2005.

Nature of diagnosis: clinical, post-mortem and laboratory (serology).

Number of susceptible animals in the outbreak: 100 birds (58 laying hens and 42 ducks).

Number of cases: 36.

Number of deaths: 36.

Number of animals destroyed: 64.

Source of outbreak or origin of infection: contact with wild birds.

Vaccination prohibited: no.

Note by the OIE Animal Health Department: the last reported outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Romania was in 1942.

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