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Russia and Japan banned British poultry imports after Britain’s first outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu in farmed poultry that caused it to cull almost 160 000 turkeys on Monday. Workers wearing white protective suits took the livestock away in crates to be gassed after discovery of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain.

Britain scrambled to contain its first outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu in domestic poultry on Saturday after the virus was found at a farm run by Europe’s biggest turkey producer. About 2 500 turkeys have died since Thursday at the Bernard Matthews farm near Lowestoft in eastern England.