Examination by the Central State Laboratory of Veterinary Medicine of Ukraine dated December 12, 2005 revealed: antibodies to the avian influenza pathogen of serotype H5 (2 samples from the village of Urozhaine, 1 sample from the village of Yakymivka), and influenza A virus DNA of serotype H5 (11 samples from the village of Chornozemne). This was reported to "proUA" by the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.\n\nAccording to the press service, on December 12, work continued in the territory of three districts to confiscate and destroy domestic poultry in settlements where cases of highly pathogenic influenza in domestic poultry had been detected.\n\nFrom December 3 to 12, 50,786 head of poultry were removed from the quarantine zone, namely: in Sovetskyi district (village of Nekrasovka, village of Krasnoflotske, village of Dmytrivka, urban-type settlement Sovetskyi - 13,986 head of poultry), in Dzhankoi district (village of Zavit-Leninskyi, village of Pushkine - 5,669 head of poultry), in Nyzhnohirskyi district (village of Izobilne, village of Omelianivka, village of Yakymivka - 31,131 head of poultry). Five settlements have been completely cleared of domestic poultry: Nekrasovka, Zavit-Leninskyi, Pushkine, Izobilne and Omelianivka.\n\nCompensation payments to residents of the settlements continue; as of 7:00 a.m. on December 13, UAH 897,781 had been paid out.\n\nTeams composed of representatives of veterinary medicine, physicians, and the sanitary-epidemiological service conducted 32,132 household visits and vaccinated 25,284 persons, including 4,396 children. More than 436 persons living in premises where poultry deaths have been recorded are under medical observation.