Expert Comment
These figures are chilling, but they should not be surprising
Black and ethnic minority people in Britain still face "entrenched" race inequality in many areas, including education and health, accorindg to a review by the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Dr Hannah Jones, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology gives her opinion.
"No reason to believe that Bird Flu is a threat to humans" - Prof Andrew Easton
“The confirmed case of H7N7, otherwise known as bird flu, in Lancashire is a concern because of the potential threat to the UK poultry industry. There is no reason at this stage to believe that there is a threat to humans either directly by infection with the virus or indirectly by the presence of the virus in food."
Bird flu: "when certain types spread to domestic poultry serious disease can be seen"
Andrew Easton, Professor of Virology at the University of Warwick's School of Life Sciences, has commented on the case of bird flu at a Yorkshire duck farm. Professor Easton says "Aquatic birds such as ducks can harbour over 100 (in fact 144 ) different types of influenza" and that "the risk to the poultry industry is high and the current measures require that infected birds are killed as quickly as possible".