‘Negligible’ risk in bird flu (The Evening Telegraph) Britain has been struck with its first outbreak of the potentially deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, scientists said. [News Source]

Cull begins of bird flu-hit turkeys (PA via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) A cull has begun of 159,000 turkeys after government vets confirmed poultry at a Suffolk farm had died from the potentially deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. [News Source]

It’s too early to panic, but we should prepare. Nothing seems more medieval than the arrival of an invisible plague spreading across the globe. The Suffolk outbreak brings home to us the threat of these influenzas, but the real danger lies abroad. [News Source]

Bird flu is the price of your £5 roast. There is something biblical about modern farming. One calamity seems to follow another. Plagues sweep through livestock with terrifying speed. [News Source]

‘Negligible’ risk in bird flu (PA via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) Britain has been struck with its first outbreak of the potentially deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, scientists said. [News Source]

Avian Flu Does Not Pose A Food Safety Risk For UK Consumers - Food Standards Agency (Medical News Today) Tests have shown that the avian flu which killed 2600 turkeys at a Suffok farm is the H5N1 virus. Food Standards Agency advice, that avian flu does not pose a food safety risk for UK consumers, remains unchanged.Food Standards Agency AdviceThe Food Standards Agency considers that avian flu does not pose a food safety risk for UK consumers. [click link for full article] [News Source]

Bird flu battled at British turkey farm (Moldova.org) A bird-flu virus thought capable of killing humans has been identified at a turkey farm in Britain where another 159,000 birds are set to be killed.Sky News said Saturday that the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs had confirmed that the outbreak at the Suffolk County farm, which has already killed more than 2,600 turkeys, was indeed the lethal H5N1 strain of avian influenza.H5N1 ... [News Source]

Outbreak of bird flu is confirmed on Suffolk farm. Government vets confirmed last night that a strain of bird flu was responsible for the deaths of 1,000 turkeys at a farm in Suffolk. [News Source]

Bird flu found on British farm. Government vets are investigating an outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm after thousands of turkeys died. [News Source]

Bird flu kills 1,000 turkeys in outbreak on poultry farm. Britain was on alert for bird flu last night after a thousand turkeys died of the virus at a Bernard Matthews farm in Suffolk. [News Source]

Bird flu outbreak on UK farm is H5N1. An outbreak of bird flu on a farm run by Europe's biggest turkey manufacturer Bernard Matthews is the highly pathogenic H5N1 version of the virus which can kill humans, the European Commission said. [News Source]

Bird flu can infect people via upper airway: expert. Leading scientists in Hong Kong have found that the H5N1 bird flu virus can infect cells in the upper airway of humans and need not penetrate deep in the lungs to cause infection. [News Source]