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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9676

6 June 2008
Contents Publication in full By article 26 / 36
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/epizootics
Highly pathogenic strain of H7 virus is detected in UK poultry farm

Brussels, 05/06/2008 (Agence Europe) - The H7 strain with high pathogenicity of the avian flu virus has been detected on poultry in a farm in Oxfordshire (central England), it was announced on Wednesday 4 June by the British Ministry for Agriculture and the Environment (Defra). A cull has been carried out on 25,000 birds from this farm near Banbury, as a precautionary measure. The British authorities have begun implementing measures as set out in the 2005 Community directive on combating the...

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