Greece confirms first case of blood flu

Authorities in Greece today confirmed the country’s first case of bird flu, on a turkey farm on the Aegean Sea island of Oinouses, near the Turkish coast.

Agriculture Minister Evengelos Basiakos said the H5 virus had been detected in one of nine turkeys tested on Oinouses.

Tests were being conducted for the possible presence of the deadly H5N1 virus - which world health experts fear could mutate to a human form and cause a flu pandemic.