AUSTRIA - Austria confirmed H5N1 in two chickens and three ducks in an animal sanctuary in Graz in February.

ALBANIA - Albania has confirmed its first H5N1 case in the southern Sarande area and plans to cull 2,000 chickens. AZERBAIJAN - Three young women in Azerbaijan have died from suspected bird flu after contact with sick birds. WHO awaiting results from a British laboratory before confirming that H5N1 was to blame. BOSNIA - Bosnia has confirmed H5N1 in two swans. Bosnia has banned hunting wild fowl, ordered all poultry kept indoors.

BULGARIA - Bulgaria has found H5N1 in a wild swan in wetland near Romania. The EU banned imports of poultry and products from Bulgaria on Feb. 16.

CROATIA - Croatia confirmed H5N1 in a dead swan on Ciovo island, off the largest coastal city of Split.

DENMARK - Denmark says it has found its first case of the highly pathogenic H5 in a wild buzzard near the town of Naestved, south of Copenhagen. A quarantine area was set up with a radius of at least 10 km around the area.

FRANCE - France confirms the first case among domestic fowl in the European Union in a turkey farm in the east of the country. One million birds in an area around the farm will be culled. France said its poultry sector, the biggest in Europe, is now losing 40 million euros ($48 million) a month.

GERMANY - German authorities have identified a marten, a weasel-like creature, infected with H5N1 bird flu, the second species of mammal to be found with the virus in the country. There are no cases of domestic fowl contracting bird flu. GREECE - Greece said two more samples from dead swans tested positive for H5N1, bringing the number of infected wild fowl to 32. No cases of bird flu have occurred in farm poultry but sales were down by as much as 85 percent. HUNGARY - Hungary said it had become the first country to produce a vaccine in industrial quantities to protect people against H5N1 after domestic drug producer Omninvest received a temporary distribution licence for a vaccine it was developing.

ITALY - Italian poultry producers said demand for chicken meat had plummeted by 70 percent since H5N1 virus had been found in swans in the south of the country.

NETHERLANDS - Dutch authorities are to launch a postponed voluntary vaccination campaign of its 1 to 3 million backyard poultry and about 5 million free range poultry on March 16.

POLAND - Several new centres of H5 bird flu have been uncovered in Poland. Standing emergency procedures have been put into effect, wherever the bird flu virus has been found.

ROMANIA - Bucharest said it had detected H5N1 in samples taken from a moorhen in the Black Sea port of Mangalia and in a swan on a nearby lake.

RUSSIA - Russia started mass vaccination of domestic fowl in the south of the country on March 10.

SERBIA - Serbia reported its first suspected H5N1 case in a domestic bird on the border with Bosnia and took precautionary measures to cull animals in the area. Serbia has confirmed its first case of H5N1 in a swan found in the Sombor region.

SLOVAKIA - Slovakia's first cases of H5N1 have been confirmed by tests on two birds.

SLOVENIA - Slovenia has so far detected a total of 23 cases of the H5N1 virus.

SWEDEN - Sweden confirmed that that two wild ducks found found near the Baltic port city of Oskarshamn on its east coast carried H5N1.

SWITZERLAND - Switzerland confirmed that a tenth wild bird had been diagnosed with avian flu. The H5-inected grebe was found in the town of Schaffhouse.

TURKEY - Turkey has reported no new cases of bird flu among humans since Jan. 13, but authorities have culled around 2.3 million poultry across the country to date.