H5N1 News: EC, CSL Fight Bird Flu
The European Commission said on Monday it is considering banning all imports of pet birds following the death of a South American parrot quarantined in the United Kingdom and diagnosed with the H5N1 strain of the virus.
Agriculture ministers from the European Commission’s representative nations are meeting in Brussels, Belgium to discuss the move, although they are unlikely to reach a decision on Monday, according to Commission spokesperson Jonathan Todd.
The news came as the world’s largest maker of blood plasma products, CSL, said it had high hopes that the vaccine it is testing in humans could protect against a form of H5N1 that mutates so it can spread from person to person, unless the mutations were “major.”
posted by Fergie @ 10/24/2005 10:14:00 AM
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