Agriculture Ministry: no new signs of H5N1

Agriculture Ministry spokesman Stanislav Kozak has said that so far no new cases of bird flu have been uncovered in eastern Bohemia, after outbreaks in Tisova and Norin. Mr Kozak referred to the cases while speaking on a TV debate programme on Sunday. Neither H5 nor H5N1 strains have shown up. The head of the State Veterinary Office, Milan Malena, said on the same programme that H5N1 on a turkey farm in Tisova had most likely been transmitted through the clothing or boots of a worker to a chicken farm in Norin - where 28,000 specimens were culled this week.