Bird Flu (continued)

HONG KONG (AFP) - Tests on a blue magpie found dead in Hong Kong have shown it was infected with the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, the government said.
The bird was found in the densely populated Sham Shui Po district on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said in a statement Saturday, saying the virus had been confirmed after a series of tests.

Meanwhile....farmers are calling for a ban on raw imported poultry meat from countries infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus until the cause of the UK outbreak has been established.
Charles Bourns, chairman of the poultry board of the National Farmers' Union, said: "All we are saying is that if you have H5N1 in a country then obviously, if it has come in from Hungary this time, then the measures that are being taken to prevent the disease entering the UK have broken down somewhere. Therefore, maybe the easiest way out of this situation would be to stop the importation of raw poultry meat from any country with H5N1 until the Government has worked out how it got here."
Hong Kong bird tests positive for H5N1
Farmers urge ban on poultry imports