Romania: Bird flu has no borders

Romanian authorities were culling thousands of domestic birds in the Danube Delta region to prevent the spread of a deadly strain of bird flu that has decimated flocks and killed dozens of people in Asia.

Officials said yesterday that they were also awaiting test results from a British laboratory on samples from birds found dead in Maliuc, a village 20 miles from Ceamurlia de Jos, where the H5N1 bird flu strain was first detected in Romania.