NOVOSIBIRSK.  May 16 (Interfax) - Tests have confirmed that 86 dead chickens  found  in the village of Maksimovka in the Omsk region between April 29  and  May  13  were infected with the H5N1 bird flu strain, the press service  of  the  Emergency  Situations Ministry′s Siberian branch told Interfax on Tuesday.
     "Examinations  have  confirmed the bird flu virus. A total of 3,893 domestic  birds  have already been inoculated against the disease in the
village," the press service said. No  poultry  deaths  have  been reported over the last 24 hours, it said. The village has been quarantined.