Britain's first blogging cabinet minister, environment secretary David Miliband, has found some time to update his blog about the Bernard Matthew's bird flu outbreak. His first post on the subject on February 7 angered bird lovers, who'd no doubt heard him tell the Commons that the wild bird population was "most likely" to be at the root of the problem. Today he outlines how the finger of suspicion has moved elsewhere.
By Thursday 8th February the genetics showed a perfect match with the recent Hungarian outbreak. This was significant because with transmission by wild bird, the virus mutates, and so such a close genetic match is most unlikely.
The account has worried John Capstick in the Miliband blog's comments, who believes the government still hasn't got its head around animal movement in and out of the UK, six years after foot and mouth.
