France, alongside Hungary, has been the country most affected by a wave of highly contagious H5N8 bird flu in Europe. The farm saw some 10,000 chickens out of a flock of 27,000 die last month but initial testing did not detect bird flu. The type of bird flu was not indicated. A case of H5N8 bird flu was detected in the far north late last year but among wild birds rather than on a farm. Traces of a severe bird flu virus were found on chickens at a farm near the port town of Dunkirk, which is close to the Belgian border, local authorities said in a statement, adding that further tests were being conducted to confirm the outbreak.
Mutation of H7N9 bird flu strain found in Guangdong patientsThe drug resistance was found in two patients found to have the mutation of the virus, the report said. There have been over 1,200 laboratory confirmed cases of human infection for bird flu in mainland China since the first was reported in 2013. China's H7N9 bird flu measures came too late, experts sayHis further work showed these patients can be treated with alternative antiviral drugs. Experts said signs of resistance in a new strain of the deadly H7N9 bird flu virus against a drug used to treat people with the infection needs swift investigation to clarify how to handle the mutation. Virologists said the finding did not mean the drug was ineffective against bird flu, but a swift investigation was needed to assess how to handle the situation.
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