Britain culls 160,000 turkeys in bird flu outbreak
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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 European Commission says a strain of bird flu which killed 2,600 turkeys in Suffolk is the H5N1 virus.
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LONDON, Feb. 3 -- The deadly H5N1 Asian strain of bird flu, which has killed 165  people since 2003, has been confirmed on a commercial turkey farm in eastern England, health authorities said Saturday.
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Government vets reveal that 1,000 turkeys that died at a farm in Suffolk died from bird flu.
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Britain is facing poultry bans from Japan to Jersey after it finished slaughtering about 160,000 turkeys in the hope of containing its worst bird flu outbreak.
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Experts in Turkey are checking whether a bird flu outbreak in the south east of the country is the H5N1 virus strain.
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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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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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Nearly 160,000 turkeys were being culled in Britain on Sunday after the country's first confirmed outbreak of the potentially lethal Asian strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus in poultry.
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MALAYSIA slaughtered hundreds of chickens and other birds today to contain the country&#39;s second outbreak of deadly bird flu in three weeks.
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Four people have tested positive for a mild strain of bird flu, British authorities said Friday.
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Turkeys are to be slaughtered and processed again at the Bernard Matthews farm where bird flu was discovered.
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Five nations have banned imports of UK poultry following the outbreak of bird flu on a Suffolk turkey farm.
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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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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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Thousands of turkeys face culling after a bird flu outbreak on a Suffolk farm is confirmed as the H5N1 strain.
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Officials were investigating the cause of a deadly bird flu outbreak on a farm in Suffolk on Monday as workers culled thousands of turkeys to prevent the virus from spreading.