The government has announced that bird flu restrictions are to be lifted this week across the UK. Mandatory housing ... that any suspicions of disease are reported to the Animal and Plant Health ...

and the Food Standards Agency says bird flu poses a very low food safety risk for UK consumers. Poultry keepers must report suspicion of disease to APHA on 03000 200 301.

Mandatory housing measures for poultry and captive birds, which were introduced across various counties to prevent the spread of bird flu, will be lifted from Thursday 15 May, the Chief Veterinary ...

Twelve human cases resulting in four deaths were reported in Turkey in January 2006. Could bird flu affect flocks in UK? Bird flu can affect all birds including waterfowl. There was an outbreak of ...

The alert comes just weeks after the world's first case of bird flu was identified in a sheep in the UK. Following a large ... There have been no reported cases of human to human transmission ...

The UK government has taken steps to prepare for a possible bird flu outbreak by placing an order ... In September, however, a case was reported in the US that did not seem to have been caused ...

However, bird flu isn’t retreating. Ohio just reported its first outbreak since early March. open image in gallery Since the beginning of the year, more than 30 million poultry birds have been ...

known more colloquially as the bird flu. Over the last year, a highly pathogenic avian influenza, A(H5N1), has sporadically been reported in wild birds, poultry and dairy cows across the United ...