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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9359
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/bird flu

H5N1 virus moves on from Hungary to United Kingdom

Brussels, 05/02/2007 (Agence Europe) - On Saturday 3 February, the European Commission confirmed the discovery of an outbreak of the highly contagious H5N1 bird flu virus at a turkey farm in the United Kingdom, which becomes the second country the EU, after Hungary, to have been hit by this disease since the beginning of 2007. The WHO bird flu expert stated after the discovery of the contaminated British poultry farm that Europe must be prepared to tackle other outbreaks of the epidemic this...

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