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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9129

11 February 2006
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/avian flu
Strengthened security measures for Greece following death of swans from H5 virus

Brussels, 10/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 10 February, the European Commission adopted a decision requiring Greece to take protection measures for poultry farms, following the discovery the previous day, on the Katerini coast near Salonica, of three migrating swans which had died from the H5 virus. Samples have been sent to the Community reference laboratory at Weybridge, in the United Kingdom, which should determine whether the birds died from the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian flu,...

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