About five days ago it was reported in the news media that Jeremy Farrar, the incoming chief scientist at the World Health Organisation (WHO) had urged governments to ensure that the pharmaceutical industry crank up trials and thereafter the production of avian flu (H5N1) vaccines …
This is an update on the devastating avian flu outbreak in the UK. My thanks to The Times newspaper and Rhys Blakely the science correspondent. Before I mention the report, I can remember a television news item yesterday featuring a woman who looks after a …
The back story is that in the UK currently there is an H5N1 bird flu problem. The poultry industry and wild birds in the UK are going through the worst winter for avian flu on record. About 2.3 million birds have been culled to limit …
There are rules governing the keeping of hens in the UK in order to minimise the possibility of an outbreak of bird flu occurring in the UK because there have been outbreaks of the highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry and wild birds in several …
