Strasbourg, 25/10/2005 (Agence Europe) - European Health and Consumer Protection Commissioner Markos Kyprianou briefed the European Parliament plenary on Tuesday on the measures the European Commission will be taking to ban the import of wild birds in the wake of the UK's first case of infection from the most virulent strain of bird flu, H5N1, after the death in quarantine of a South American parrot imported from Surinam (see Europe 9055). Responding to an oral question from Karl-Heinz...