Britain’s bird flu preparations

This strain of the virus has killed at least 90 people in Asia and in Turkey and so far seems able to be passed to people by birds but not easily from one human to another.

Buti f,as experts fear, it mutates into an easily transmittable human from there are predictions of a massive flu pandemic, which could kill hundreds of thousands across the world.

The UK has banned imports of live chickens from Croatia, Turkey, Romania, russia, Thailand, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Laos, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Pakistan, South Africa and North Korea where bird flu outbreaks have occured.

Wild bird are known carriers of various strains of bird flu and could possibly bring the most dangerous H5N1 strain to Britain.

By Krisztián Kapás