Unconfirmed reports of bird flu at Orkney farm ( Britain )

There are unconfirmed reports that the first case of bird flu to hit Britain has broken out at a farm in the Orkney Islands. A number of birds have died and tests have been carried out to try to establish the cause.

The Scottish Executive’s environment and rural affairs department has released a statement confirming that a number of birds have died on a poultry farm on mainland Orkney. A veterinary officer visited the premises yesterday and took samples for laboratory investigation of suspected avian notifiable disease - which could be a strain of Avian Influenza or Newcastle Disease, better known of course as bird flu.

[Read bird flu story here]

UPDATE: March 16, 2006.
The deaths of about 100 chickens on Orkney were not caused by bird flu, it has been announced.

Preliminary tests on the birds show no signs of H5 avian influenza. Officials however stated that final test results will not be known until sometime next week.

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