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 guidance she has issued on the minimum safe distance to be maintained between premises on which poultry infected by the H5N1 avian influenza virus are identified and premises where uninfected birds may continue to be kept.
If a premises is infected with H5N1 avian influenza virus, all premises within the standard protection zone described in the Diseases of Poultry (England) Order 2003 will be surveyed by officers of the State Veterinary Service, regardless of their distance from the infected premises. Poultry in the infected premises will be culled.
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