A woman hands one of her turkeys to a Romanian official checking domestic fowl for bird flu. Photograph: Daniel Mihailescu/AFP/Getty Images
Confirmation that the nastiest known strain of bird flu has made it to Turkey and probably Romania has made many people jumpy. The Guardian, Telegraph, Times, Daily Mail and Express all splashed on the story today.
The World Health Organisation has tried to calm everyone down, underlining the belief that the dreaded mutation has yet to happen. The official death toll from bird flu still stands at 60, it reminded people.
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