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Britain confirmed its first outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu in a domestic flock on Saturday, saying the virus has been detected on a farm owned by Europe’s largest turkey producer where 2,500 turkeys died.

TESTS have confirmed that a dead bird discovered last week in Hong Kong was carrying the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus, the city’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department announced today.

British scientists have developed an air purifier that kills colds and flu germs, including H5N1 bird flu, as well as MRSA and Anthrax.

Rising numbers of human bird flu deaths in Indonesia and avian flu outbreaks among poultry in several Asian countries have put the region on alert.

The country’s (Indonesia) biggest vaccine producer, PT Bio Farma, is aiming to produce a vaccine against the deadly strain of the bird flu virus for humans by the end of this year.

Spain, Europe’s biggest tourism destination by revenue, confirmed its first case of bird flu.

Bird flu experts meeting in Paris at the First International Conference on Avian Influenza in Humans were told by leading virologists that it could take 10 years to develop an effective bird flu vaccine.

The remote state, Taraba, in eastern Nigeria, has reported the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. Officials in Nigeria say the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has spread to another state, bringing the total number of states now affected by the virus to 14.

More testing is needed before China can confirm whether a soldier who died in Beijing in 2003 was an early case of bird flu, the Health Ministry said Monday. The case, first disclosed last month in a letter by Chinese researchers to a US medical journal.

A World Health Organization probe revealed that the bird flu virus mutated within an Indonesian family. An Indonesian man who died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu almost certainly caught the disease from his 10-year-old son. He is the first laboratory-confirmed case of human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 strain.