Via the Diss Express, a local news source: Suspicion grows on Diss bird flu being imported. Excerpt:
Defra confirmed at a public meeting on Friday night that tests on wild birds in the Diss area have shown no signs of bird flu, heightening suspicion the virus was imported.
Held at Redgrave Amenity Centre, the meeting included local MP David Ruffley, council representatives and speakers from Defra and Suffolk Trading Standards to answer questions from the public.
Anthony Greenleaves, of Defra's Animal Health department said surveillance and testing of birds had been increased in Norfolk and Suffolk. He added: "To date our surveillance is not showing signs of avian influenza in wild birds. Nobody is saying it is from wild birds, we don't know yet."
Mr Ruffley said: "There is suspicion that it was from imported meat so I think we all have to be extremely careful and be led by the science and the facts."
Tests on another suspected site, Grove Farm in Botesdale, have come back negative for bird flu, according to the farm's owners, with Mr Greenleaves adding: "The preliminary results are negative. It suggests that Redgrave Park Farm may have been the only site infected.
"I'm certainly feeling a lot more optimistic today than I was a few days ago."
If imported meat does turn out to be the source of the outbreak, the question is where the meat came from.
