13/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission confirmed on Friday 10 October that the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus had been detected on a poultry farm in Saxony, in the east of Germany near the border with Poland. The H5N1 virus was found in a farmed duck in the Görlitz region during routine monitoring. The authorities implemented the measures provided for in the 2005 directive (culling of the birds on the farm and setting up protection and surveillance zones around the scene of...