Brussels, 06/04/2006 (Agence Europe) - Germany has for the first time detected a case of the highly pathogenic H5NI avian flu virus in a farm (EUROPE 9168) and has immediately applied the planned Community measures (slaughter of poultry on farm, installation of surveillance zone). This is the second case of poultry contamination in the EU, following a case on a French farm. Since February, Germany has discovered 274 wild birds, three cats and a marten infected by the virus, mainly in the Mecklemberg and Western Pomerania area (especially the Isle of Rügen) but also in Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, Brandenberg, Berlin, Bavaria, Bade Würtenberg and now in Saxony. On 5 April the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health decided to update and extend Community measures in Germany until 8 May. The United Kingdom has announced a first case of the H5 virus in a dead wild swan in Scotland. It is the thirteenth country to be affected by the virus. The Community's laboratory in Weybridge now has to establish whether it is of the highly infectious (H5N1) strain. EU veterinary experts voted on 5 April to extend the embargo on poultry imports from Turkey, Romania and parts of Croatia (three countries particularly affected by the virus) to 31 July 2006, due to new cases being detected.