The most dangerous strain of bird flu has hit the Turkish part of Cyprus, the European Commission announced over the weekend.
The presence of the potentially deadly H5N1 bird flu strain in the Turkish Cypriot north was confirmed by the European Commission on Sunday (29 January), after it received test results from the EU Community Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza at Weybridge in the UK.
The H5N1 virus was detected in a dead chicken in a village near Famagusta on the easte...
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