Bird flu in Britain: The highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu has hit Europe’s biggest turkey producer. Some 2,500 turkeys at the Bernard Matthews farm near Lowestoft in eastern England have died; the entire population of 159,000 will be “culled.” A 2-mile protection zone has been established around the farm, and some neighboring countries […]
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