Past scares help Europe in bird flu virus fight. European governments can draw on a rich experience of food crises as they grapple with bird flu but the threat from H5N1 remains hard to manage. [News Source]

Suspect sheep herd to be culled as a precaution. Veterinary authorities said yesterday they would cull sheep in one herd after an outbreak of scrapie now being investigated for links with the brain-wasting mad cow disease. [News Source]