Britain battles H5N1 bird flu outbreak in poultry
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Britain scrambled to contain its first outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu in domestic poultry on Saturday after the virus was found at a farm run by Europe's biggest turkey producer.
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Leading UK supermarket chains say the  recent bird flu outbreak in Britain has had little impact on  poultry counter sales so far -- a view echoed in other parts of  Europe.
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A report from Britain's Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) said on Friday the bird flu outbreak in Suffolk, UK, was "most likely" linked to the import of poultry products from Hungary.
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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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LONDON -- Britain is confronting Europe's biggest outbreak of bird flu with a massive slaughter of turkeys -- and worried consumers are asking whether the disease will hit humans next.
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Russia and Japan banned British poultry imports as Britain neared the end of 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 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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Britain is expected to complete the slaughter of nearly 160,000 turkeys to contain the country's first outbreak in poultry of the potentially lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu, as officials urged the public not to panic.
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A fourth swan has tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in Dorset
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Up to 160,000 birds may be culled as experts try to identify which strain of bird flu killed 2,600 turkeys in Suffolk.
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Britain aimed to complete the cull of 160,000 turkeys on Monday as a government crisis team met to tackle the nation's first exposure to the latest deadly strain of the bird flu virus in farmed poultry.
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The H5N1 bird flu virus has been detected in another poultry farm in northern Bangladesh, forcing authorities to cull nearly 300 chickens, officials said on Wednesday.
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Government vets work through the night at a UK poultry farm to contain an outbreak of bird flu.
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HOLTON, England -- Britain scrambled to contain its first outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu in domestic poultry yesterday after the virus was found at a farm run by Europe's biggest turkey producer.
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The world should expect more bird flu outbreaks in the coming months, the U.N. official coordinating the global fight against the virus warned Sunday after Britain recorded its first case of the H5N1 strain on a commercial farm.
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The EU confirms a new outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in Hungary.
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The World Health Organization is warning countries experiencing outbreaks of bird flu (H5N1) in poultry to be aware that domestic ducks may be infecting humans, as well as other poultry with the bird flu virus.