Brussels, 07/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - The highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus has been discovered in a bird found dead in Spain, the Spanish agriculture minister announced on 7 July. The European Commission was immediately informed. This is the first case officially registered in Spain, which becomes the fourteenth EU country to be affected by the epizootic. The virus was discovered in a wild duck, in the province of Alava, in the Basque Country. Spain immediately took the appropriate...