Bird Flu Detected on Turkey Farm in England
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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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Poultry farmers around Europe were on guard Monday against the possible spread of bird flu across the North Sea from infected Britain
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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 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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A sixth swan tests positive for avian flu at the Abbotsbury swan sanctuary in Dorset, Defra says.
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The bird flu strain found at a farm in Suffolk may be the same as the one in Hungary, the government says.
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Nearly 160,000 turkeys were being culled in Suffolk after the country's first major outbreak of the potentially lethal Asian strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus.
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An outbreak of bird flu on a farm run by  Europe's biggest turkey manufacturer Bernard Matthews is the  highly pathogenic H5N1 version of the virus which can kill  humans, the European Commission said on Saturday.
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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, a senior health official said Friday.
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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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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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An outbreak of bird flu on a farm run by  Europe's biggest turkey manufacturer Bernard Matthews has  killed 2,500 birds, government officials said on Saturday.
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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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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 tried 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 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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British scientists gave the all-clear to reopen a chicken slaughterhouse next to a turkey farm hit by an oubreak of the potentially deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, a minister said.