Strain of avian influenza found in free range turkey flock in Co Wicklow
The risk to humans from the H5N8 subtype is considered to be very low.
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The risk to humans from the H5N8 subtype is considered to be very low.
Risk to humans from the virus is considered very low.
The risk to humans is considered to be very low.
The risk to humans is considered to be very low.
The H5N8 virus is highly pathogenic, and has been found across the UK and Europe in recent times.
It’s a precautionary measure after outbreaks of bird flu in the UK.
An outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N8 (bird flu) has been confirmed in Lincolnshire.
‘Influenza viruses constantly reinvent themselves’, says the head of the WHO. ‘No one can predict the future course.’
Police in China’s southwest city of Guiyang detained three people for claiming H7N9 had been found in a poultry market, according to police.
A temporary exclusion zone is lifted after further tests on a flock of game birds in Clonakilty show bird flu had not spread.
The Department of Agriculture said today that bird flu found in pheasants in Clonakilty is not the deadly H5N1 strain. However all biosecurity measures will remain in place in Barryroe, where results are expected on ill pheasants there.
Forget SARS, forget swine flu, forget foot-and-mouth disease… the original virus of doom is back.