30.12.2016

Iran has culled hundreds of thousands of birds in recent weeks as avian influenza spread across seven provinces. More than 1,000 wild birds, mostly geese, have been found dead in the Mighan Lagoon wetland in Markazi Province, central Iran. Besides Markazi, avian influenza has been detected in Alborz, Qom, East Azarbaijan, Kermanshah, Mazandaran and Tehran.