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H5N1 Update: European bird flu experts holding crisis talks

A Reuters newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:

European bird flu experts were due to hold an emergency meeting on Friday, a day after health officials confirmed what many had long feared was inevitable — the spread of the deadly H5N1 strain from Asia to Europe.

The European Commission said the meeting would start later Friday and look at the risk migratory birds might pose for the European Union.

“The experts’ groups will then issue recommendations on the potential risk for humans in contact with such birds,” it said in a statement.

Meanwhile, nine people have been kept under observation in hospital in Turkey for blood tests for suspected bird flu after the death of a number of their pigeons, state-run Anatolian news agency said on Friday.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a new Avaian Influenza update yesterday:

Avian influenza – new areas with infection in birds – update 34

posted by Fergie @ 10/14/2005 06:34:00 AM