BUCHAREST, Dec. 3 (Xinhuanet) -- Romania has detected new cases of bird flu in a village outside the Danube delta where the deadly H5N1 strain was first discovered in October, a TV report said on Saturday.

    Aurica Avram, deputy head of Braila county, said on local TV that domestic fowl had been tested positive for the H5 strain of bird flu on Saturday in the village of Ciocile, close to three villages where other outbreaks were detected over the past week.

    Realitatea, a private television station, said eight domestic birds were found carrying the virus, and local officials immediately quarantined the village and started culling the birds on Saturday night.

    The Danube delta, Europe's largest wetlands near the Black Sea, is a major resting place for migratory wild birds. It is also a way station for birds heading from Russia and Scandinavia toward warmer winter climes in North Africa.

    Having detected its first case of bird flu on Oct. 7 in the delta village of Ceamurlia de Jos, Romania is the first European country to have found the deadly H5N1 virus in poultry. So far it has not reported any human case of bird flu.

    Romania's neighbour, Ukraine, reported its first outbreak of avian flu on Saturday, in the Crimea peninsula. Enditem