By: HAMIDA GHAFOUR (Toronto Globe and Mail)
LONDON -- Britain is anxiously waiting for what seems like the inevitable spread of avian flu to its shores, at a time when memories of mad-cow disease and the foot-and-mouth crisis are still fresh.
Government officials urged the public to stay calm as European Union ministers met to discuss how to contain an outbreak, after France, which is just across the English Channel, became the seventh European Union country to confirm that it had been hit by the disease. A dead duck tested positive for the H5N1 strain.
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