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Posted on October 10, 2008

Via Bloomberg: Bloomberg.com: Health Care href= http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601202&sid=aKHOLH2GSOR8&refer=healthcare Germany kills 1,400 fowl after first 2008 bird flu. Excerpt:German authorities killed 1,400 domestic fowl after identifying the country's first case of avian influenza this year on a commercial farm in the town of Markersdorf, near the Polish border.A duck tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu, Elke Reinking, a spokeswoman for Germany's Friedrich Loeffler Institute, said in a telephone interview today. Tests confirmed that th...

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