Talking turkey. Even if the new department has improved on its predecessor in many ways, this reluctance to share information is reminiscent of the bad old ways of the BSE crisis. [News Source]

Trust tries to cut risk of bird flu. Health officials in the UK are taking action to minimize the risk of bird flu spreading to humans. [News Source]

Suited up to deal with toxic threat. Bio-terrorism experts have been enlisted by a Sunderland company in a bid to beat toxic threats with workers learning how to contain and decontaminate areas which could pose a risk to residents living in the city. [News Source]

Farmers urge meat import controls. The farmers' union has called on the government to place tighter controls on imports of foreign turkey meat, following the outbreak of bird flu. [News Source]

Supermarkets braced for turkey recall. Supermarkets are facing a possible nationwide recall of processed turkey products in an attempt to halt the spread of bird flu. [News Source]

New bird flu cases reported in Asia. This season's wave of the virus came mostly from reared rather than migratory birds. [News Source]

Latest bird flu blamed on bird trading. Experts suspect the current spread of bird flu in Asia, Africa and Europe is mainly a result of trade in infected live birds rather than transmission through wild birds. [News Source]

New bird flu outbreak in S Korea. Health workers in South Korea have begun to cull thousands of chickens after a new bird flu outbreak was discovered near the capital, Seoul. [News Source]

Hungary denies UK bird flu link. Hungarian officials say there is no evidence to prove that an outbreak of bird flu in Britain was caused by infected poultry from Hungary. [News Source]

Bird flu ‘could be in our shops.’ Turkey products could be taken off store shelves after the Government's chief scientist said raw meat infected with bird flu might have gone on sale. [News Source]

S.Korea kills birds after flu outbreak. South Korean quarantine officials began slaughtering hundreds of thousands of poultry after a fresh outbreak of bird flu in a province near the South Korean capital, the Agriculture Ministry said Saturday. [News Source]

Call for ban on meat from bird flu countries. Farmers are calling for a ban on raw imported poultry meat from countries infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus until the cause of the UK outbreak has been found. [News Source]