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(From ONASA News Agency)
MOSCOW, Nov 1 (ONASA/AFP) - Russia has discovered outbreaks of avian flu in 10 areas, and 19 more are under suspicion, according to agriculture ministry officials. Among the areas affected are southern Siberia's Altai and Omsk regions, the south Urals' Kurgan region, neighboring Chelyabinsk and in central Russia's Tambov regions as well as the Tula region south of Moscow, the ITAR-TASS news agency quoted the officials as saying. "Three more areas in the Kurgan region and 16 in the (southern Siberian) Novosibirsk region are under suspicion," the ministry added. Migratory birds had apparently carried the virus to Siberia …