Police to patrol farm virus zone
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Officers are to patrol the foot-and-mouth protection zone in Surrey after fears restrictions are being ignored.
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Further tests are carried out as it is confirmed a cow on a North East farm has the bluetongue virus.
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Tests are being carried out Sunday to determine the extent of bluetongue infection after the first-ever case was detected in Britain, where farmers are already dealing with foot-and-mouth disease.
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Â·  Animals on second Suffolk farm infected Â·  Restrictions on livestock movement eased
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The Department of Health is setting up a surveillance system against bird flu to aid health workers to manage possible cases of the disease among humans, it was learned Saturday.
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The farmer whose imported sheep is the first bluetongue case in Wales said he followed biosecurity rules.
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Protection zone set up after cow in Watford tests positive for disease
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Probes into a foot-and-mouth outbreak in Surrey find the virus was present in a pipe on the nearby Pirbright site.
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Five new bluetongue cases prompt the extension of control zones in East Sussex and East Anglia.
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Bird flu has infected five more people in  Vietnam, two of whom are under treatment in Ho Chi Minh City  where riot police are manning checkpoints for poultry vehicles  and authorities have issued warnings to travel agents.
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Government vets work through the night at a poultry farm in Suffolk to contain an outbreak of bird flu.
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Lynden police last night were interviewing a woman they believe is at the center of a flu-shot scheme in Whatcom County. Detective Lee Beld said it appears the woman is a registered nurse who may have privately
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Biosecurity stepped up and workers given Tamiflu as vets test more dead birds in Dorset
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UK scientists have developed two tests for avian flu to safeguard against an outbreak.
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Vets are investigating a suspected case of foot-and-mouth at an agricultural centre in Lanarkshire.
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A series of measures are being taken to prevent animal epidemics since a bird flu outbreak in the country in the spring. Local governments have reinforced the monitoring of bird flu.
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Bernard Matthews, the owner of the farm where the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was found last week, is under investigation for apparently transporting turkeys from a restricted zone in Hungary to its British farm, it was reported.