Romanian authorities detect new bird flu cases

Authorities quarantined two villages in southeast Romania today after four chickens tested positive for an H5 subtype of bird flu, an official said.

The virus was first detected late on Tuesday in quick tests in the village of Stelnica, some 90 miles east of Bucharest, in a sign that the virus was turning up west of the Danube Delta, where the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus was first confirmed in October.