EU foreign ministers debate bird flu strategy

European Union foreign ministers held emergency talks today on the widening bird flu scare as Greece banned the export of live birds and poultry meat from the area where the EU’s first bird flu case was detected yesterday.

Poultry from Turkey and Romania has already been banned by the EU as bird flu found there was confirmed as being the deadly H5N1 strain. Tests were also being carried out on birds in Bulgaria and Croatia.