By Stephane Mahe LOIREAUXENCE, France (Reuters) - France's river Loire, famous for the hundreds of castles gracing its shores, is a shallow river at t.
France s river Loire, famous for the hundreds of castles gracing its shores, is a shallow river at the best of times, but this year even its flat-bottom tourist barges can barely navigate waters
France s river Loire sets new lows as drought dries up its tributaries gazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Stephane Mahe LOIREAUXENCE, France (Reuters) - France's river Loire, famous for the hundreds of castles gracing its shores, is a shallow river at the best of times, but this year even its flat-bottom tourist barges can barely navigate waters greatly reduced by a record drought. Even some 100 kilo.
Russia Just Alerted The WHO to The World s First Case of H5N8 Avian Flu in Humans
ANNA SMOLCHENKO & AMELIE BAUBEAU, AFP
22 FEBRUARY 2021
Russia said Saturday that its scientists had detected the world s first case of transmission of the H5N8 strain of avian flu from birds to humans and had alerted the World Health Organization.
In televised remarks, the head of Russia s health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, said scientists at the Vektor laboratory had isolated the strain s genetic material from seven workers at a poultry farm in southern Russia, where an outbreak was recorded among the birds in December.