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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9209
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/bird flu

Outbreak confirmed in geese in Hungary

Brussels, 12/06/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 9 June, Hungary informed the European Commission of an outbreak of bird flu in a domestic flock of geese in Bács-Kiskun, in the south of the country. The outcome of tests at the reference laboratory at Weybridge in the United Kingdom are awaited to see if this is the highly pathological H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus. Were it to be the case, Hungary would become the fifth EU country, following France, Sweden, Germany and Denmark, to have had an...

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