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EU 'must cooperate on bird flu'

European countries need to work more closely together in planning for a future flu pandemic, a study suggests.

Although Europe's preparations for dealing with an outbreak are broadly good, important gaps remain, a study 21 of countries' plans in the Lancet says. The maintenance of essential services and the way vaccines and other medical supplies are distributed need to be better planned, the UK team said. There should be better surveillance of those working with animals, it added.

Avian flu has been found in birds in Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Germany, Austria, France, Slovenia and Britain, but so far no humans have become infected in the European Union.

Although several human cases of the particularly lethal strain of bird flu, H5N1, have been discovered in Turkey.

Worldwide around 200 people have become infected, half of whom have died, most in South East Asia.

But experts believe a human flu pandemic, most probably linked to a mutant form of the H5N1 virus, is inevitable.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4921970.stm