31/10/2007 (Agence Europe) - Since the beginning of the year, 306 cases of the (highly pathogenic) H5N1virus of bird flu have been identified in the EU in wild birds, according to figures updated on Tuesday 30 October by DG Health and Consumer Protection of the European Commission. These outbreaks of bird flu were registered over the course of last summer (288 cases in July and the rest in August), in three countries in the EU (298 in Germany, 7 in France and 1 in the Czech Republic). The...