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http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=68502006
A GOVERNMENT investigation designed to establish whether bird flu has reached Britain has found that a duck shot in Scotland was suffering from a strain of the disease, it emerged last night.
Scientists who conducted a sweeping check on hundreds of birds rounded up across Britain found that a wild mallard shot in West Lothian last month was the only one that tested positive for avian influenza.
A spokesman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the findings were not a cause for immediate concern, as the duck was not carrying the virulent H5N1 strain of the disease, which has been sparking increasing alarm across the continent.
But experts believe the discovery underlines the difficulties involved in ensuring the UK stays free of a disease that could be imported by migrating birds.
Defra's first study of wild British birds involved almost 1,500 carcasses, samples caught live and shot........
I propose a shoot to be arranged in the House of Commons to prevent the spread of the virus
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=68502006
A GOVERNMENT investigation designed to establish whether bird flu has reached Britain has found that a duck shot in Scotland was suffering from a strain of the disease, it emerged last night.
Scientists who conducted a sweeping check on hundreds of birds rounded up across Britain found that a wild mallard shot in West Lothian last month was the only one that tested positive for avian influenza.
A spokesman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the findings were not a cause for immediate concern, as the duck was not carrying the virulent H5N1 strain of the disease, which has been sparking increasing alarm across the continent.
But experts believe the discovery underlines the difficulties involved in ensuring the UK stays free of a disease that could be imported by migrating birds.
Defra's first study of wild British birds involved almost 1,500 carcasses, samples caught live and shot........
I propose a shoot to be arranged in the House of Commons to prevent the spread of the virus
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