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February 13th, 2007 VETS were today awaiting the results of tests on meat transported from the UK to Hungary after the British bird flu outbreak. The outcome of tests into whether the lethal strain of H5N1 bird flu found in Britain this month was directly linked to a similar case in Hungary will be known by Tuesday, an EU official said.

February 7th, 2007 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. As a precaution all 159,000 turkeys will be slaughtered on the farm in Holton in Suffolk, about 130 miles northeast of London, said Britain's Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer Fred Landeg.

May 5th, 2006 The Bird Flu virus re-emerged in Asia in 2003, outbreaks have been confirmed in more than 48 countries and territories, according to data from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). Since the beginning of January, 2006, more than 30 countries have reported outbreaks, in most cases involving wild birds such as swans.

October 18th, 2005 European Union foreign ministers held emergency bird flu talks on Tuesday to balance moves to test for outbreaks of deadly bird flu with keeping people calm and avoiding widespread panic after the disease was found in Turkey and Romania. The EU blocked poultry shipments from Greece on Monday night following confirmation that the H5 virus was identified in a turkey from the Aegean island of Oinoussa.

November 10th, 2008 Thailand, the world's fourth-largest exporter of poultry, had slaughtered millions of birds to restrict the spread of the bird fly virus. And six months back they able to declare themselves free of the killer virus.

October 21st, 2005 The European Union has decided to ban on imports of pet birds and feathers from Siberia, Russia. The move follows the confirmation from Moscow of an outbreak of the deadly bird flu H5N1 virus reached western Russia with an outbreak in a village 350 kilometres south of the capital.

February 7th, 2007 A fresh outbreak of bird flu has been confirmed in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, a year after thousands of chickens were culled to contain the disease, news reports said Wednesday. Forty birds at a poultry farm in Islamabad's twin city died of the H5N1 strain or were killed while infected, according to the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock.

December 11th, 2008 Although H5N1 virus mainly infects birds, it can easily spread in humans. Experts fear that the constantly mutating H5N1 virus could change into a form which could easily transmitted from human to human.