EU extends import ban to Malaysia after bird flu outbreak
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The European Union has banned imports of pet birds and feathers from Malaysia after an outbreak of a lethal form of bird flu there, the European Commission said.
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The British poultry company hit by a bird flu outbreak denied on Friday it had broken rules by importing meat from parts of Hungary that were off limits because of an outbreak there.
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Russia and Japan banned British poultry imports as Britain pressed ahead with a cull of 160,000 turkeys after the nation's first outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu in farmed poultry.
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Britain gassed tens of thousands of turkeys and extended restrictions on the movement of poultry on Sunday to try to prevent the spread of deadly bird flu from a farm in eastern England.
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Malaysia may place an entire state  under quarantine if an outbreak of bird flu blamed for the  deaths of 29 people in the region worsens, officials said on  Wednesday.
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U.K. regulators have extended the  suspension of Chiron Corp.'s influenza vaccine production in  Liverpool, England for another three months from Jan. 4, the  company said on Tuesday.
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Britain moved to complete a cull of  160,000 turkeys on Monday after it became the latest country  hit by a major outbreak of the deadly bird flu virus.
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The Malaysian government said on Thursday it had decided against banning exports of poultry goods after its first bird flu outbreak.
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BEIJING/KUALA LUMPUR  - The discovery of a deadly bird flu strain in Malaysia after cases elsewhere in Southeast Asia signaled a major winter outbreak was likely, international health experts said on Friday.
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The bird flu outbreak at a farm in Suffolk may be linked to imports from the firm's plant in Hungary, the government has said.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia found new cases of bird flu today in an infected area that had been under quarantine for three weeks, setting off a new round of culling poultry and screening people to contain the potentially deadly disease.
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Russia and Japan banned British poultry  imports after Britain's first outbreak of a deadly strain of  bird flu in farmed poultry that caused it to cull almost  160,000 turkeys on Monday.
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Bird flu spread further in Thailand on  Friday, with the government confirming four new outbreaks of  the deadly disease, including one near the border with  Malaysia.
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Business: 26 December 2004, Sunday. Macedonia is to decide whether to ban the imports of poultry from Bulgaria because of a bird flu case registered in the country, Skopje Vreme newspaper reported.
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Malaysia will send a team of senior agriculture officials to Thailand next week for urgent talks on tightening border controls against the spread of bird flu, which has forced a quarantine of Malaysia's northern Kelantan state.
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Malaysia may take the unprecedented step of placing an entire state under quarantine if an outbreak of bird flu that has killed at least 28 people in the region worsens, officials said on Wednesday.
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Britain moved to complete a cull of 160,000 turkeys on Monday after it became the latest country hit by a major outbreak of the deadly bird flu virus.