Brussels, 22/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 22 February, the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health backed European Commission proposals to allow France and the Netherlands to carry out targeted preventive vaccination campaigns on certain poultry against the highly pathogenic strain of avian flu (H5N1) which has been discovered in wild birds in seven EU countries - Greece, Italy, Germany, Austria, France, Slovenia and Hungary. On 22 February, two chickens which had been...