Some 48,000 birds carrying avian virus might have been brought to Romania, to Brasov county where the bird flu outburst occurred several days ago, from Hungary and Slovakia, an Intelligence report showed. The report is to be presented to president Traian Basescu by the head of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) Radu Timofte.

A few days earlier of the bird flu cases discovery in Codlea, the company Protan burned 200 tones of chicken waste. Despite the fact that birds continued to die, the companies delivered the poultry from the same lot.

Timofte confirmed the report and its delivery to the Romanian president, premier and Agriculture minister, Interior minister and Health minister as well.