Tourists who visited Thai bird park test positive for avian flu
Foreign Office to consider updating travel advice· Beckett outlines measures to halt spread in the UK
Sandra Laville and Martin Wainwright
Thursday October 27, 2005The Guardian
The Foreign Office said last night it was monitoring the cases of three tourists from the French Indian Ocean island of La Réunion who apparently contracted the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu while on holiday in Thailand.
The French authorities were waiting for further test results on the tourists who returned to La Réunion last week after spending seven days in Thailand. The travellers took pictures of each other at a bird park where they came into close contact with exotic species, according to Hélène Monard, a French health ministry spokeswoman. >>>cont
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Sandra Laville and Martin Wainwright
Thursday October 27, 2005The Guardian
The Foreign Office said last night it was monitoring the cases of three tourists from the French Indian Ocean island of La Réunion who apparently contracted the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu while on holiday in Thailand.
The French authorities were waiting for further test results on the tourists who returned to La Réunion last week after spending seven days in Thailand. The travellers took pictures of each other at a bird park where they came into close contact with exotic species, according to Hélène Monard, a French health ministry spokeswoman. >>>cont
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