Bird Flu Avian Influenza H5N1 United Kingdom News 

Britain 'faces 75,000 bird flu deaths' (Guardian Unlimited)
Found on 21 Jul 2008 12:25 GMT
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Britain faces 75,000 deaths in bird flu pandemic, Lords report predicts (Guar...
Found on 21 Jul 2008 12:17 GMT
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Bird flu outbreak could kill 3,000 people a week (icWales)
Found on 12 Jul 2008 09:41 GMT
A BIRD flu pandemic in Wales could result in an extra 3,000 people dying a week, it was claimed yesterday.

Avian Influenza A/(H7N2) in the United Kingdom Update
Found on 04 Jun 2007 09:59 GMT
Following the confirmation on 25 May 2007 by Health Authorities of the United Kingdom, of influenza A/H7N2 virus infection in four individuals (two in Wales and two in north-west England) exposed to infected poultry at smallholding, Corwen Farm, Conwy, Wales, the National Public Health Service (NPHS) for Wales is continuing with the investigation of the incident and with the implementation of p...

Avian Influenza A/(H7N2) in the United Kingdom
Found on 29 May 2007 09:59 GMT
On 25 May 2007, the United Kingdom Health Protection Agency (HPA) announced that influenza A/H7N2 virus infection had been laboratory confirmed in four individuals exposed to infected poultry in Corwen Farm, Conwy, Wales. The poultry outbreak in Wales started on a smallholding, Corwen Farm, Conwy, on 8 May 2007, was laboratory confirmed on 24 May 2007, and notified to the World Organisation for...

Britain's bird flu preparations
Found on 28 Apr 2006 13:15 GMT
What measures has the UK taken to deal with bird flu and the threat the virus might mutate and cause a human pandemic?

Call for UK to vaccinate poultry.(United Kingdom to fight avian flu)(Brief Ar...
The UK organic lobby group, the Soil Association this week called on the government to adopt vaccination as the primary control measure in any outbreak of avian influenza in the UK. The use of vaccination in the form of a ring-fence is a proven, effective tool that should be used ahead of any moves

Publication: Agra Europe

Deadly avian flu strain confirmed in Turkey; tests in the United Kingdom have...
The UK ministry for environment, food and rural affairs (Defra) confirmed on Thursday this week that the H5 virus was in Romania, but it was not yet clear which strain it is. This situation in Turkey is the first time the H5N1 avian flu strain-the one found in Asia and known to be transmissible in

Publication: Agra Europe

Defra calms fears at avian flu outbreak.(meat & fish)(United Kingdom. Departm...
Defra has played down health fears after an outbreak of avian flu in a flock of free-range laying hens. All the birds on the farm in Banbury have been slaughtered and there is no risk of the H7 strain entering the food chain, Defra stressed. Properly cooked poultry and poultry products, including

Publication: Grocer

ANIMAL HEALTH : H5N1 BIRD FLU VIRUS DETECTED IN GERMANY AND THE UNITED KINGDO...
The most virulent form of the avian influenza virus (H5N1) has been detected for the first time in Germany at a poultry farm near Leipzig in Saxony. Very strict controls and surveillance provisions were endorsed on 5 April by the European Union's Standing Committee on Animal Health and the Food

Publication: European Report

AVIAN INFLUENZA : H5N1 BIRD FLU VIRUS DETECTED IN GERMANY AND THE UNITED KING...
The most virulent form of the avian influenza virus (H5N1) has been detected for the first time in Germany at a poultry farm near Leipzig in Saxony. Very strict controls and surveillance provisions were endorsed on 5 April by the European Union's Standing Committee on Animal Health and the Food

Publication: Europe Agri

ANIMAL HEALTH : H5N1 BIRD FLU VIRUS DETECTED IN GERMANY AND THE UNITED KINGDOM.
The most virulent form of the avian influenza virus (H5N1) has been detected for the first time in Germany at a poultry farm near Leipzig in Saxony. Very strict controls and surveillance provisions were endorsed on 5 April by the European Union's Standing Committee on Animal Health and the Food

Publication: Europe Environment

Avian flu spreads.(News)(United Kingdom confirms bird flu disease)(Brief arti...
Avian flu spreads. Britain's last occurrence of bird flu was in April 2006 when a dead swan washed up on shore in Scotland; however, in early February 2007, authorities confirmed England's largest outbreak of H5N1 in 2,500 turkeys in the northeast at Lowestoft. Investigators are puzzled as to how

Publication: Medical Laboratory Observer