Britain confirmed a case of avian flu at a poultry farm in northern England on Monday, three days after
flagging a suspected case there, but said there was little risk to public health or food safety.
The strain found, H7N7,
posed a "very low" risk to public health, Britain's Department for
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said in its statement.
Officials have imposed a 10 km (6 mile) control zone around the farm and the culling of birds there was continuing.
"We have a strong track record of controlling and eliminating previous outbreaks of avian flu in the UK," Defra said.
Britain
had an outbreak of the highly contagious H5N8 bird flu at a duck farm
in northern England last November, the first since 2008. Restrictions on
the movement of poultry in the surrounding area were lifted a month
later.
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