Question follow-through · 790
Avian Influenza: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to (a) help prevent the dairy-cattle H5N1 virus strain from (i) entering and (ii) spreading among the UK population and (b) prepare for potential outbreaks of t
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 18 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 25 Jul 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to (a) help prevent the dairy-cattle H5N1 virus strain from (i) entering and (ii) spreading among the UK population and (b) prepare for potential outbreaks of t
22 Jul 2024
Target answer date
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25 Jul 2024
Answer published
The Government is in close contact with counterparts in the United States on the incidents of influenza of avian origin in cattle in the USA. We know that the strain of virus (Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) strain B3.13) involved has not been de...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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