UK confirms bird flu on farm (Pretoria News) London - British vets ordered the slaughter of 5 000 birds on Monday after a new outbreak of avian flu on a farm in eastern England, the first in six months, officials said. [News Source]

UK confirms bird flu on farm (Cape Argus) London - British vets ordered the slaughter of 5 000 birds on Monday after a new outbreak of avian flu on a farm in eastern England, the first in six months, officials said. [News Source]

UK confirms bird flu on farm (Pretoria News) London - British vets ordered the slaughter of 5 000 birds on Monday after a new outbreak of avian flu on a farm in eastern England, the first in six months, officials said. [News Source]

Deadly bird flu strain confirmed. The bird flu outbreak in East Anglia was on Tuesday confirmed as the virulent H5N1 strain, prompting the government to impose region-wide restrictions on the movement of poultry. [News Source]

Deadly strain of bird flu confirmed on Suffolk poultry farm. Government scientists have launched an investigation into the source of the deadly strain of bird flu which was confirmed yesterday at a poultry farm in Suffolk. [News Source]

Bird flu: 22,000 more birds to be culled (Bury Free Press) A Suffolk poultry firm at the centre of the avian flu outbreak has suffered another blow today, as Defra has ordered the culling of 22,000 free range turkeys at four more of its farms. [News Source]

Deadly flu infects free-range birds. Government vets gave warning last night that the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu may already be endemic in the British wild bird population as an outbreak was confirmed on a Suffolk turkey farm. [News Source]

Poultry checks continue in bird flu alert. The outbreak of H5N1 at Redgrave Park on the Norfolk-Suffolk border was confirmed by vets yesterday, and a cull of 5,000 turkeys, 1,000 ducks and 500 geese that began last night is still ongoing. [News Source]

Farmers call for wild bird checks as avian flu proves to be killer strain. Poultry producers last night called for increased surveillance of wild birds after an outbreak of avian flu in East Anglia was confirmed as the feared H5N1 strain. [News Source]

Cull continues at bird flu farm. The culling of 6,500 birds is due to continue at a Suffolk farm where the highly-contagious H5N1 virus was found, according to government vets. [News Source]

UK bird flu outbreak confirmed as H5N1. The outbreak of bird flu killing turkeys at a UK farm has been confirmed to be the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus that has been moving across Eurasia and has so far killed 206 people, mainly in Asia. [News Source]

Marsh UK Analyzes Threats from Latest Avian Flu Outbreak (Insurance Journal) Marsh's London office has issued a detailed bulletin following the outbreak of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in Suffolk. The report recounts what is known about avian flu, and what the potential impa [News Source]