BIRD FLU – MIGRATION
September 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is coordinating efforts to monitor the movement of wild birds during the oncoming migration season, because of concerns that this could be vehicle by which bird flu finally enters Europe's poultry population. A meeting of the EU's standing committee on the food chain and animal health has released detailed guidelines for surveys that it wants carried out by member states, to pinpoint any entry of the disease, assisting resulting controls. Firstly, it wants governments to draw up a high-risk hit list of birds flying in from ...
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