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Bird flu in swans

I've just been looking at the ministerial statement on the bird flu in swans and it seems that the swans were found over a period December 27 to Jan 4 and then stored in a freezer before being tested. This means it was 11 days before the first swan was tested for H5N1 and confirmed. Fortunately,...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Richard Allison on Tue, Jan 15 2008
Bird flu again

Just to confirm, DEFRA has announced that it is the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus. It also said that testing found th evirus to be closely related to that found in outbreaks in Germany and the Czech Republic this summer. To me, this suggests wild birds are to blame which is bad news for the industry....

Posted to Chicken chat (Forum) by Richard Allison on Tue, Nov 13 2007
Re: Bird flu again

Just to confirm, DEFRA has announced that it is the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus. It also said that testing found th evirus to be closely related to that found in outbreaks in Germany and the Czech Republic this summer. To me, this suggests wild birds are to blame which is bad news for the industry....

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Richard Allison on Tue, Nov 13 2007

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