H5N1 News: India Quarantines Eight as Bird Flu Spreads
A Reuters newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:
India began a door-to-door search for anyone with fever on Monday, quarantining six people in hospital as authorities scrambled to contain the country’s first outbreak of bird flu.
In Europe, officials urged people to carry on eating poultry meat despite outbreaks of the lethal H5N1 bird flu strain, saying European Union authorities had the means available to wipe out the disease.
A string of EU countries have now confirmed H5N1 in wild birds, knocking consumer confidence in poultry meat -- especially chicken.
posted by Fergie @ 2/20/2006 12:27:00 PM
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