India quarantines six as bird flu spreads faster
By Krittivas Mukherjee
Monday, February 20, 2006; 12:45 PM

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India began a door-to-door search for anyone with fever on Monday, quarantining six people in hospital as authorities scrambled to contain the country's first outbreak of bird flu.

In Europe, officials urged people to carry on eating poultry meat despite outbreaks of the lethal H5N1 bird flu strain, saying European Union authorities had the means available to wipe out the disease.