Brussels, 22/08/2005 (Agence Europe) - The Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health of the EU will meet in Brussels on 25 August, to assess the risks that bird flu could spread within the Member States of the Union, the spokesperson of the European Commission confirmed on Monday. On Friday 19 August, Russia confirmed that the virus had reached the Ural chain and that it had hit the Republic of Kalmykia, in the south of the country. Russia, which is implementing large-scale...