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More Than 50 Birds Die In British Quarantine From Bird Flu: Official
Fifty-three finches from Taiwan have died at a British quarantine center because of an outbreak of the most deadly strain of avian flu, the government said Tuesday. The birds, southeast Asian mesias, died last month of the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 strain, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) said. "Only the mesias were infected with H5N1 and 53 out of 101 birds died," it said in a statement. The department also said it was not possible to know if a parrot from Surinam, which also died, had in fact been killed by the same virus, as the tissues of the two species were pooled during testing. "Infection with H5N1 was transmitted between the mesias, but there is no evidence of transmission to other species in the facility," a quarantine center in Essex, it said. "The original identification of HPAI H5N1 on October 21 was made from a pool of tissues derived from a Pionus parrot (Surinam) and a mesia (Taiwan)," the department said. "It has not been possible to say whether the virus isolated came from the parrot tissue or the mesia tissue or both. However, in the light of the other evidence the balance of probabilities is that the source was the mesia sample." Local environment minister Ben Bradshaw said "it was an innocent mixup" when interviewed on BBC television. Bradshwaw meanwhile denied a newspaper report that any of the infected birds had escaped. "There is no evidence following an exhaustive investigation... that any birds were either released or left out of this quarantine early," Bradshaw told BBC television. All rights reserved. � 2005 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse. Related Links TerraDaily Search TerraDaily Subscribe To TerraDaily Express 
FluWrap: Tourist Negative For Bird Flu
Reunion (UPI) Oct 27, 2005One of three tourists from the French Indian Ocean island Reunion has tested negative for bird flu despite fears he contracted it while on a trip to Thailand. Results for two other tourists are pending.
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