Bird flu: UK confirm first case of H5N1 bird flu virus in sheep stoking fears of spread

Bird flu: UK confirm first case of H5N1 bird flu virus in sheep stoking fears of spread

Source: The Nightly

The world's first known case of bird flu in a sheep has been detected on an English farm where the virus had also been confirmed in captive birds.

Bird flu has been detected in a sheep in northern England, the first known case of its kind in the world, Britain’s government says, adding to the growing list of mammals infected by the disease and fuelling fears of a pandemic.
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