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Influenza News Three Swans Dead Due to Bird Flu in Dorset, UK Jan 29, Posted in Influenza The first case of bird flu virus in the UK was recorded in April 2006 in Scotland. Extensive control was taken up at that time. A new case of bird flu in the UK was reported, as three wild swans in Dorset died due to the avian virus strain and a fourth one was tested positive......

Stock Investing Course (EUNN) London - Health officials in France have confirmed the first case of Bird flu in the European nation. While further positive cases of Bird flu have surfaced in Germany and at least two cases in the Netherlands are under suspicion as well as Bird flu spreads deeper into the EU.

This is the first case of a flock of German farm poultry contracting bird flu, the wire service reports, although several cases of the virus were found in wild birds in Germany this year. Health officials remain alert to the possibility that the avian flu virus could mutate and cause it to be transmitted from human to human. Although the World Health Organization puts the number of human deaths from avian flu at 190, none of them is ascribed to contagion between humans, the AP reports.

Stock Market Game The French farm ministry said a duck found in the east had tested positive for the virus, and that it was likely to be the H5N1 strain that can be transmitted to humans. "The test showed the H5 virus was present and had strong similarities with the H5N1 Asian influenza," French health officials said.

Normally the avian bird flu viruses do not affect humans but since 1997 (when the first case of avian bird flu among humans appeared in Hong Kong), this kind of flu has infected and killed several humans in the South East Asian countries. While WHO does not recommend avoiding travels to these countries, it does advice staying away from live animal markets and poultry farms. This is because the droppings of infected birds generally carry large quantities of the virus.

Stock Investing Game The French farm ministry has set up a quarantine zone around Lyon,prohibiting the transportation of birds into or out of the areawhere the duck was found dead on Monday.

or "bird flu", is a contagious disease of animals caused by viruses that normally infect only birds and, less commonly, pigs. While all bird species are thought to be susceptible to infection, domestic poultry flocks are especially vulnerable to infections that can rapidly reach epidemic proportions. December 2003, a growing number of Asian countries have reported outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in chickens and ducks. Infections in several species of wild birds and in pigs have also been reported.

Journal Prime Rate Street Wall In Germany, tests confirmed that 10 more birds found dead on a northern island had the deadly strain. The agriculture minister, Horst Seehofer, warned that the outbreak would most likely spread throughout the country and urged state governments to prepare for the worst. "We must expect that this will expand to other geographical areas," he said.

Intensive poultry farming may have been a factor in the global spread of bird flu, General Dr. Margaret Chan, who added that the majority of new diseases (including SARS, Ebola and bird flu) stemmed from animals, the AP reported.

Stock Market News In the Netherlands, vets are testing two dead swans for H5N1, and the government will speed up poultry vaccination plans as the disease spreads in Europe, the farm ministry said yesterday.

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