the fol story on the ukraine situation underscores the need for...

the fol story on the ukraine situation underscores the need for gsk to pursue the licensing agreements much more vigorously.

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Bird flue could "hibernate", reemerge later - official
17:13 | 07/ 12/ 2005




MOSCOW, December 7 (RIA Novosti) - The bird flu virus could "hibernate" in Ukraine's autonomy of the Crimea this winter and then reemerge in spring, the head of the Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare said Wednesday.

"It is not good that the weather in the Crimea is warm and migrating birds will stay there to spend the winter," Gennady Onishchenko said. "The situation will develop further."

He said a group of specialists set off to Ukraine to conduct tests on dead birds to see whether the virus strain in the Crimea is identical to the registered strain in Russia.

Ukraine's Emergency Situations Ministry said last week that a highly pathogenic strain of the bird flu virus had been discovered in three regions of the autonomy