Brussels, 16/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 16 February, the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health reached agreement on measures to be taken in the event of a case of avian flu being discovered in commercial poultry. For the moment, the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of the avian flu virus has been confined to wild birds in six EU Member States (Greece, Italy, Austria, Germany, Slovenia and Hungary).
Were commercial poultry in the EU to be infected with the virus, the measures...