BERLIN (AP) — The Berlin Zoo shut its doorways to guests Friday after one in all its aquatic birds examined optimistic for avian flu, the ability mentioned.
A routine examine on a hamerkop — a medium-sized wading hen — that had died final week discovered that it examined optimistic for the illness.
The zoo will stay closed in the interim as a “precautionary” measure, the zoo mentioned. Within the meantime, caretakers are working to quarantine and separate the remaining hen populations.
“The first purpose is to stop the unfold of avian flu,” Berlin’s local weather ministry mentioned.
Zoos in different German cities, together with Greifswald, Karlsruhe, Rostock and Heidelberg, have additionally lately been hit with circumstances of avian flu.
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