BELGIUM CHICKEN FLU
March 1st, 2003
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has banned the export of live poultry and hatching eggs from Belgium and halted their transportation within the country. This follows reports of a possible outbreak in the province of Antwerp of avian influenza - a highly contagious poultry disease that Brussels says can cause severe economic damage to the industry and which has already recently broken out in the neighbouring Netherlands.
THE EUROPEAN Commission has banned the export of live poultry and hatching eggs from Belgium and halted their transportation within the country. This follows reports of a possible outbreak in the province of Antwerp of avian influenza - a highly contagious poultry disease that Brussels says can cause severe economic damage to the industry and which has already recently broken out in the neighbouring Netherlands.
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