About 900 tonnes of poulty meat passed through a UK farm infected
with bird flu and into the food chain during an outbreak of the
disease last month, according to the country's public health
minister.
Since this story was published Bernard Matthews has confirmed
that sales of some products have fallen by 40 per cent on some days
since the avian influenza outbreak began.
The investigation into the avian influenza outbreak in the UK took
a new twist yesterday, withthe authorities launching an
investigation into whether Bernard Matthews' imported the H5N1
virus from Hungary.
Drugs based on Australian scientific body CSIRO's research into the
influenza virus have been shown to be effective, in laboratory
tests, against a sample of an H5N1 influenza virus currently
infecting chickens in Asia.
