Friday June 08th 2007, 3:28 am
Bird flu has been discovered at a farm which bought birds from a market linked to an earlier outbreak, the Government has revealed. The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) found 22 chickens and three ducks tested positive for avian flu at the farm in St Helens, Lancashire.
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Market link to bird flu farm (ITV.com)
APEC members adopt bird flu guidelines (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News)
Friday June 08th 2007, 2:35 am
_ Health ministers from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum signed a declaration here Friday pledging to share bird flu virus samples.
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