UK's bird flu hits U.S. chicken companies
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Stocks in the largest U.S. chicken  companies were lower on Monday after the deadly bird flu hit a  turkey farm in England, but U.S. experts said there was no  danger to the $38.5 billion U.S. chicken industry.
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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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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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Senators on Friday criticized the Agriculture Department's planning for deadly bird flu, saying the voluntary nature of its testing program threatens the U.S. poultry industry.
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South Korea confirms a second poultry farm has been hit by an outbreak of bird flu as a mass cull is under way.
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In 28 years of raising chickens, Virgil Shockley has had his share of worries, from bird disease to pollution. But nothing prepared him for the latest concern sweeping the poultry industry: Local farms could be deemed terrorist targets by the U.S. government.
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Some 4,000 chickens are culled in Vietnam in the latest of several bird flu outbreaks which are damaging the country's economy.
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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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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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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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Turkeys at a farm in Virginia had antibodies to a low-risk strain of bird flu but direct evidence of infection has not been found, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday.
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Tests have found that birds at a poultry farm in southern Germany died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, and some 160,000 birds were being slaughtered as a precaution, authorities said.
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British health officials Friday said their U.S. counterparts knew in mid-September that problems at a drug-manufacturing plant in England could disrupt influenza vaccine supplies to the United States.
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Restrictions are to be lifted at the Bernard Matthews plant in Suffolk which was at the centre of a bird flu outbreak.
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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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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.Comment
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The H5 strain of the bird flu virus has been found in turkeys at a poultry farm in eastern England, the environment ministry said.