Ireland will cull to stop bird flu

IRELAND will not vaccinate poultry against bird flu, Agriculture Minister Mary Coughlan said yesterday.

Ireland will cull to stop bird flu

Instead the country’s fowl population will be culled and any suspect or infected flocks killed, she said.

Health ministers meet in Britain today, Thursday and Friday where they will evaluate how prepared each country is for a human flu pandemic and arrange to test systems later this year.

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