raised poultry. And Paris said on Tuesday it wanted EU health and foreign ministers to meet soon to coordinate their reaction to the spreading bird flu virus. "We can see that the H5N1 virus, this bird flu virus, is spreading and is arriving at our doors," French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said on France 2 television. A European Commission spokesman said EU health ministers would meet informally on Oct. 20-21. In Bulgaria, authorities said they were testing three birds found dead in the north of the country but so far there were no indications the virus had crossed its borders. Test results were expected in about a week.
