Brussels, 17/10/2005 (Agence Europe) - The Community reference laboratory in Weybridge confirmed on Saturday that the avian flu in Romania was of the H5N1 strain, the same as that found in Asia and Turkey. The Commission and Member State experts worked last week on the assumption that the virus in Romania was highly pathogenic, to ensure that “appropriate measures” are already in force, the Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, Markos Kyprianou said. The Commission therefore...