CNN.com - Bird flu strain confirmed in Turkey - Oct 13, 2005: "Bird flu strain confirmed in Turkey

Friday, October 14, 2005 Posted: 0111 GMT (0911 HKT)

(CNN) -- The European Commission has called an emergency meeting of its food and animal health committee for Friday after it confirmed that the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found in Turkish poultry and suspected of being present in Romania."