Berlin Zoo Closes Door To Guests Aver Chicken Exams Optimistic For Avian Flu

BERLIN (AP) — The Berlin Zoo shut its doorways to guests Friday after one in every of its aquatic birds examined optimistic for avian flu, the ability stated.

A routine examine on a hamerkop — a medium-sized wading fowl — that had died final week discovered that it examined optimistic for the illness.

The zoo will stay closed in the meanwhile as a “precautionary” measure, the zoo stated. Within the meantime, caretakers are working to quarantine and separate the remaining fowl populations.

“The first aim is to forestall the unfold of avian flu,” Berlin’s local weather ministry stated.

Zoos in different German cities, together with Greifswald, Karlsruhe, Rostock and Heidelberg, have additionally lately been hit with instances of avian flu.