Little Risk of Bird Flu Landing [News]
Eastern Daily Press
16 February 2006
Paul Hill
Wildlife experts last night moved to reassure people about the "small" threat of avian flu reaching East Anglia, after the discovery of dead swans in Western Europe.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) said people should continue to enjoy their gardens and the countryside and stressed there was only a "theoretical risk" of migrating birds spreading the disease to Britain.
Yesterday, the European Commission announced it was to spend £1.3m on improving "national surveillance programmes" after German authorities confirmed that two swans found dead on the Baltic island of Ruegen had the killer H5N1 strain of the virus.
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