19/05/2006 (Agence Europe) - Following in the wake of France, Germany and Sweden, Denmark has become the fourth EU Member State to detect an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus in a backyard poultry farm on the island of Funen. In accordance with EU legislation, the Danish authorities have already killed and destroyed all the birds on the farm and have established a high-risk area with a 3km protection zone around the farm and a 10 km surveillance zone. The H5N1 virus has...