Czech authorities seek person spreading bird flue on his shoes

The Czech veterinary authorities, aided by the police, are looking for a person who might be spreading the bird flu in the Pardubice region in eastern Bohemia. They suspect that someone could have visited the two farms where the H5N1 strain of the bird flue first appeared in June, soiled his or her shoes with the birds' droppings and infected another two farms in the area, a veterinary authority spokesperson said. The person might be a careless vet or a maintenance man, he said.