Hungarian poultry 'most plausible' cause of bird flu outbreak
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Poultry products from Hungary were the most likely cause of the outbreak of a potentially lethal H5N1 bird flu at a turkey farm in Suffolk, the government has said.
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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.
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The outcome of tests into whether the lethal strain of H5N1 bird flu found in Britain this month was directly linked to a similar case in Hungary will be known by Tuesday, an EU official said.
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Russian health officials confirmed on Monday that a bird flu outbreak near Moscow was caused by the dangerous H5N1 strain that can infect humans.
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Cooked turkey products were exported from the UK after bird flu was found, Hungary's chief vet says.
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The World Health Organisation believes domesticated ducks may be the main transmitters of the H5N1 bird flu virus that killed 32 people in Asia this year.
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Spain has recorded its first case of H5N1 bird flu, the Agriculture Ministry said Friday. The deadly strain was found in a water fowl in a marsh area outside the northern city of Vitoria.
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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.
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The outbreak of deadly bird flu in  Asia spurred the EU on Monday to check Europe's preparedness  for the spread of a disease that scientists warn may become  pandemic.
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China has suffered a new outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in poultry, a news report said Saturday, as experts tried to determine whether a Chinese man died of the disease in 2003, two years before the country reported any human cases.
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Four people have tested positive for bird flu linked to a low-risk strain found in chickens which died on a farm in north Wales, as samples were being taken Saturday from another farm in the area.
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HONG KONG  - Domesticated ducks may be the main transmitters of the H5N1 bird flu virus that killed 32 people in two major outbreaks in Asia earlier this year, a senior World Health Organisation official said Monday.
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A case of bird flu is confirmed at a farm in north Wales after the death of 15 chickens.
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National farmers' leaders mooted a possible ban on imports of raw poultry from countries hit by the virulent H5N1 bird flu strain as authorities probed a Hungarian link to the outbreak.
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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.
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Officials confirmed Saturday that the H5N1 strain of bird flu had been found in turkeys on a commercial farm &#151; Britain's first mass outbreak of the disease that has ravaged Asia's poultry stocks and killed more than 160 people worldwide.
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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.