Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 3 November 2005.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what progress has been made on confirming the working hypothesis on the origin of the H5N1 virus recovered from bird samples taken at the quarantine facility in Essex.
Work is still in hand to analyse the samples taken from birds which had died or been slaughtered in the quarantine facility in Essex. The virus isolated so far has been placed in the same group as those which caused outbreaks of disease in ducks and geese in China in 2003.
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