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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9135

21 February 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/avian flu
Difference among Member States on preventive vaccination of poultry

Brussels, 20/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - The Agriculture Ministers of the EU have shown themselves to be divided this 20 February on the need to use a preventive vaccine on poultry for the highly contagious avian flu virus (H5N1), which has been discovered in wild birds in seven Member States of the EU (in France since 18 February, then in Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, Slovenia and Hungary, which is still awaiting the definitive results of analyses). The Standing Committee on the Food Chain...

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