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FoodProductionDaily - 12th October 2005
EU, processors await possible bird flu outbreak
EU - With bird flu creeping up on the EU, the bloc's members have been jolted into a more active response to the danger, which not only threatens human health, but also the poultry processing sector's livelihood. If the disease hits here the EU might have to cull entire flocks to stop the disease from spreading and infecting humans, raising not only a supply problem for food processors, but also a drop in consumption due to consumers fears.
Reuters - 12th October 2005
EU hopes Romania has escaped bird flu so far
EU - Bird flu does not so far appear to have hit Romania, according to test results released on Wednesday by the European Commission, raising hopes that the highly contagious disease has not yet reached Europe.But the EU said it planned to extend until next April its ban on imports of live birds and feathers from Turkey, where an outbreak of avian influenza was discovered at the weekend at a farm near the Aegean and Marmara seas.
BBC - 12th October 2005
'No bird flu' in Romania, says EU
EU - The European Union has said it has so far found no evidence of the presence of bird flu in Romania. A spokesman said tests on suspected cases had come back negative, and experts were hopeful that further examination would confirm this. Romania culled thousands of birds amid fears of an outbreak of the H5N1 virus, deadly to humans, after three ducks were found dead in a remote village. Test results on separate samples from Turkey are expected later in the week. Ankara is racing to contain a suspected outbreak at a turkey farm in the western town of Kiziksa.