Scientists confirm worst fears - this was H5N1

[Flabbergasted]

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article356258.ece

Government vets yesterday resisted calls for a nationwide ban on keeping free-range poultry outdoors, as scientists confirmed that a swan in Scotland had died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu.

Veterinary officials ordered all free-range birds within a three kilometre zone of the dead mute swan to be brought indoors, but they insisted that a wider ban on keeping domestic poultry outside was not yet necessary.

Instead, they asked poultry farmers within a 2,500 square kilometre "wild bird risk" area in Scotland - containing 3.1 million birds of which 260,000 are free range - to voluntarily bring their birds under cover, wherever possible.

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