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- 'Tories criticise bird flu payments to Bernard Matthews (Times Online Sunday)
The Conservatives claimed today that the public would be "absolutely astonished" by a decision to take no action against Bernard Matthews for its perceived biosecurity failures during last February's bird flu outbreak and to pay it £600,000 in compensation for the turkeys it had to cull at a farm in Suffolk.
'Pay-out to turkey firm hit by bird flu slammed (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Opposition politicians hit out Thursday at a compensation award of nearly 600,000 pounds to the firm at the centre of a bird flu outbreak in Britain.
'GM sugar beet can be grown without harming bird populations FWi (Farmers Weekly Interactive)
Genetically Modified herbicide tolerant sugar beet can be grown without any adverse effects on farmland bird populations, according to new research published on Wednesday (18 April).
'Britain: bird flu likely came from Hungarian poultry (Pravda)
The source of the bird flu outbreak on a British turkey farm has not been found, but it seems to be caused by poultry meat imported from Hungary, a government report said Thursday.
'Column: Bird flu found in North American birds (Niles Daily Star)
In last week's column on swans I mentioned that a bird flu virus had been found in Michigan swans last year. Just the name bird flu strikes fear in our hearts because of the Asian bird flu, labeled H5N1, which is running rampant throughout Asia and is rapidly expanding into Europe and Africa.
'Changes in Bird Abundance in Eastern North America: Urban Sprawl and Global Footprint? (RedNova)
By Valiela, Ivan; Martinetto, Paulina The abundance of birds recorded in the North American Breeding Bird Survey decreased by up to 18 percent between 1966 and 2005.
'Search for Highly Effective Bird Flu Vaccine Goes On (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
THURSDAY, April 19 (HealthDay News) -- This week's approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of a less-than-perfect vaccine against bird flu is only the beginning of the search for a truly effective shot against the virus, experts said.
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