Brussels, 30/01/2007 (Agence Europe) - Markos Kyprianou, Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, confirmed on Monday 29 January when speaking to European agriculture ministers that identified cases of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza had been detected at a farm in Hungary (EUROPE 9352 and 9353). He called on member states to step up their “vigilance” to prevent the highly pathogenic virus from spreading to other countries. Avian flu had not been detected in the EU for almost...