HC Deb 21 January 1997 vol 288 c549W
Mr. Flynn

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food which strains of Newcastle disease have been recorded in the current(a) Ross on Wye and (b) East Sussex outbreaks; and if he will make a statement. [12095]

Mrs. Browning

The central veterinary laboratory, which is an international reference laboratory for Newcastle disease, has given these outbreaks a designation of C1. This classification records the way that monoclonal antibodies react to the virus isolate in cell structure.