MOSCOW: The deadly H5N1 strain of
bird flu has been confirmed at one of three farms under
investigation near here, a veterinary source said Saturday in the
first outbreak of the disease to threaten this Russian capital.
“We have
just received the laboratory results,” Russian veterinary
authority spokesman Alexei Alexeyenko told Agence France-Presse.
“The precise subtype of the H5N1 virus [will be known] by Sunday
evening.”
SEOUL:
South Korea’s first two potential astronauts will start a year of
training in Russia this month before one of them heads to the
International Space Station. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute
said...
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