Four people infected as bird flu strikes north Wales.(News)
FOUR people have tested positive for bird flu after an outbreak on a north Wales farm. But health chiefs said the disease was not the most dangerous H5N1 strain. The Health Protection Agency (HPA) carried out tests on specimens from nine people and found four were infected. Two of the flu victims
Publication: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
WALES: Four people now test positive for bird flu.(News)
Byline: By HYWEL TREWYN and ROLAND HUGHES FOUR people have tested for bird flu - but the North Wales couple at the centre of the case have proved negative. Wales' first-ever case of bird flu was confirmed on Thursday at Ty'n Llwyn, a smallholding in Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr, near Corwen. And health
Publication: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Whole flocks to be culled if bird flu is found in Wales.(News)
Entire flocks will be culled if a bird with avian flu is found in Wales, under plans to deal with outbreaks of diseases in animals published yesterday. A contingency plan for animal epidemics also contains measures to deal with foot-and-mouth disease which tore through the Welsh countryside in
Publication: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
WALES: Confident in robust plan for bird flu.(News)
Byline: By TOM BODDEN Welsh Affairs Correspondent WELSH environment minister Carwyn Jones was confident yesterday that a robust plan was in place to deal with bird flu if it reached Wales. Veterinary staff and groups like the RSPB were on alert for any signs of the deadly H5N1 strain of the disease
Publication: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
New Year wait for Wales' bird flu plan.(News)
Byline: By Steve Dube Western Mail Contingency plans to cover any future outbreak of bird flu, or Newcastle disease, in Wales are in the final stages of preparation, says Wales Environment Minister Carwyn Jones. The Minister said the chances of the severe strain of avian flu coming to Wales 'remain
Publication: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
The World: Tests over bird flu scare in Wales.(News)
TESTS were being carried out for possible bird flu on dead birds in north Wales today. Deliveries to an unnamed country estate in rural Denbighshire were being turned away, it was reported today. A Welsh Assembly Government spokeswoman said: "We are investigating a notifiable disease in birds at a
Publication: Birmingham Mail (England)
The World: Tests over bird flu scare in Wales
TESTS were being carried out for possible bird flu on dead birds in north Wales today. Deliveries to an unnamed country estate in rural Denbighshire were being turned away, it was reported today. A Welsh Assembly Government spokeswoman said: "We are investigating a notifiable disease in birds at a
Publication: Birmingham Mail
Two adults tested for bird-flu in North Wales
Two adults are being tested for bird flu after an outbreak of the virus on a north Wales farm, it was confirmed yesterday. Dr Christianne Glossop, Chief Veterinary Officer for Wales, said it was not the most dangerous H5N1 strain but H7N2 low pathogenic avian influenza.She said: "We have no reason
Publication: Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK)
Swan deaths: It wasn't bird flu; WALES.(News)
Byline: By HYWEL TREWYN SCIENTISTS who tested eight dead swans found in a river in Caernarfon have ruled out bird flu as a cause. The bodies of the birds were found in a stretch of water along the Afon Seiont, last week within a few hundred yards of the town's historic castle. Locals alerted
Publication: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Business as usual in Wales as bird flu strikes in Dorset.(News)
Byline: By Steve Dube Western Mail The discovery of bird flu in three dead swans in Dorset has brought the disease closer than ever to Wales. But despite the highly pathogenic disease's proximity, experts in Wales said they were confident about the plans in place to deal with bird flu. Wales' chief
Publication: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
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