News

EC takes further action over bird flu in Romania and Turkey

13/10/2005

The European Commission has announced it is taking further action following the confirmation on October 12 of the presence of avian influenza H5 virus in Romania and the results from the EU laboratory on October 13 indicating that the avian influenza virus in Turkey is H5N1 closely related to a virus detected in a wild bird in central Asia a few months ago. The measures will be discussed at an emergency meeting of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health in Brussels.

To continue reading this story, please sign in or register.

Leatherbiz.com cannot be held responsible for content if the language setting is changed from English.

The translations provided by Google Translate are automated and therefore might not be accurate and may contain incorrect, offensive or misleading language. We offer this facility as a guide only.