Avian Flu Take 2

First news report I've seen about the avian flu in Ukraine as I mentioned yesterday here.

The only concern I have at this point is government transparency, or lack of it I should say. In the article they say 1,600 birds have died. Wouldn't somebody notice something after the first few hundred bird corpses were littering the ground? I'm a huge supporter of Ukraine and its further development but I hope the Peace Corps isn't depending on the government to tell them if/or when PCVs should be evacuated.