UK bird flu virus is Asian strain
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Government experts confirm the H5N1 bird flu virus outbreak at a Suffolk turkey farm is the Asian strain.
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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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The unexpected discovery of a deadly bird flu strain in Malaysia after summer cases elsewhere in Southeast Asia indicated a major winter outbreak was likely, international health experts said on Friday.
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The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu found in turkeys in Britain last week &quot;may well be identical&quot; to the virus found in wild geese in Hungary, British officials said.
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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 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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Imported poultry from Hungary is the "most plausible" cause of the UK bird flu outbreak, officials say.
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A deadly strain of bird flu blamed  for 27 deaths in Asia this year has been found in two dead  chickens in Malaysia, a government official said on Thursday.
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The European Commission on Saturday confirmed that an outbreak of bird flu on a farm in eastern England was the H5N1 strain.
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Malaysian officials on Saturday were testing three people who fell ill in a village hit by the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain, after international health officials warned that the virus appeared to be entrenched in parts of
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Four people have tested positive for a mild strain of bird flu, British authorities said Friday
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Scientists in China say they have discovered the highly virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu in pigs.
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A heron found dead near Hong Kong's  border with mainland China was carrying a bird flu virus, but  further tests are needed to determine if it is the strain that  has killed people, health officials said on Wednesday.
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Asia&#39;s deadly bird flu has been found in a dog for the first time in Thailand, authorities said yesterday, as the country battles a second major outbreak of the virus this year.
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Pakistan and South Korea reported new bird flu cases in poultry on Saturday, underlining findings by the United Nations that this season's wave of the virus came mostly from reared rather than migratory birds.
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A grey heron found in Hong Kong earlier has been confirmed an H5 avian flu suspect, and further tests are underway for the nature of the virus, the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said Saturday.
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The virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu that infected a turkey farm in Britain probably originated in Hungary rather than from a migratory bird.