The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) worries that pet fairs could bring the bird flu into Britain and spread it across the country, according to a BBC report.

Authorities continue to emphasize that the risk of an Avian pandemic is low, Dutch farmers have been ordered to keep poultry locked up inside, British doctors have been briefed on a nightmare scenario of a human pandemic and France is stockpiling drugs to protect its population

The avian flu is becoming more of a serious threat as humans are still unable to effectively control the spread of the disease, which can be spread by wild birds

Japanese authorities detect another outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm near Tokyo, the Agriculture Ministry says in a statement Monday.

Officials have extracted and identified a virus in the H5 family from chickens at a poultry farm in Ibaraki state, The Associated Press reports

The bird flu disease which began to paralyze most of Asia last year has been detected in the Chelyabinsk region of Russia's Ural mountains.

A quarantine has been imposed in several villages in the Oktyabrsky district of Chelyabinsk - a rural district with hundreds of lakes

The Bird flu has spread west to a sixth region in Russia, triggering the slaughter of hundreds more birds.

The disease has reached the Chelyabinsk region of the Ural mountains which separate Asia from Europe