ANIMAL & PUBLIC HEALTH : FIRST CASE OF H5 AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS FOUND IN POLAND.

From: Europe Environment | Date: March 22, 2006 | Copyright information

The avian influenza epidemic is continuing to wing its way across Europe, following confirmation on 5 March of the first case of the highly pathogenic H5 strain of the virus in Poland, in a swan found dead north-west of the Polish capital Warsaw. Samples will be sent to the Reference Laboratory in Weybridge, England, to determine whether the bird died as a result of the most pathogenic strain of the virus, the dreaded H5N1.

The Polish authorities have informed the European Commission in Brussels that they will immediately apply EU precautionary measures concerning all member ...

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