Brussels, 23/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - France informed the European Commission on 23 February of a possible case of the H5N1 virus in a turkey farm in the department of Ain (near Lyon). If confirmed this will involve the first EU farm to be infected by avian flu in the EU. On the same day, Germany withdrew its suspicions of a duck farm which had first tested positive. Slovakia has become the eighth country in the EU where wild birds have contracted the virus (after Greece, Italy, Germany,...