Dalmatia in Danger of Bird Flu

From Hungary, where the Bird Flu epidemic started, birds are coming to the Croatian coast with the first drop in temperature.

At least this is what Ivica Lolic claims, expert associate of the Institute of Ornithology at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Namely, swans from the Hungarian lake Balaton regularly spend the winter at Pantana near Trogir in Dalmatia. Due to high temperatures they barely migrated, but as soon as their lake freezes, they head towards our area, the Slobodna Dalmacija daily writes.

-There is a great probability of the disease transferring from geese to swans- claims Lolic, pointing out apart from the poultry from Hungary, birds from Poland, Russia, and somewhat rarely from Austria, Check Republic and Germany come to Pantana.

Besides Pantana, a critical location for the spreading of the Bird Flu is Stobrec as well, at the estuary of the river Zrnovnica where swans from Pantana can land.

At the ministry in charge, they plan to increase bird monitoring at the area near Hungary, and an import embargo on poultry from Hungary is possible as well.