Experts will today reveal the interim findings of a British government investigation into the source of the bird flu outbreak.

Export bans on British poultry because of the bird flu outbreak on a turkey farm are unjustified, the European Commission said today.

THE slaughter of thousands of turkeys is under way as officials battle to stamp out Britain’s outbreak of the potentially deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu.

The British government is preparing “very seriously” for the remote possibility of a human flu pandemic as officials battle to contain the first avian outbreak in the UK.

British government vets are continuing to investigate an outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm after more than 2,000 turkeys died.