Taiwan denies bird-flu link with dead parrot

Taiwan plans to lodge a protest with Britain over allegations that it exported fowl infected with the bird flu virus, a Taiwanese health official said today, after the farm that raised the birds was found to be free of the disease.

Taiwan denies bird-flu link with dead parrot
Wed, 26 Oct, 2005 - 09:43

Taiwan plans to lodge a protest with Britain over allegations that it exported fowl infected with the bird flu virus, a Taiwanese health official said today, after the farm that raised the birds was found to be free of the disease.

Britain on Sunday confirmed its first case of bird flu since 1992 in a parrot imported from South America.

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