bird flu. Just a thought

[ishaar]

The recent bird flu outbreak, which coincided with exercise 'winter willow',

http://www.preparingforemergencies.gov.uk/business/exercise_winter_wil low1.ppt

supposedly involved the slaughter of many birds at the B.Mathews factory.
I read that a great effort would be made to make the exercise ' as real as possible' could this 'effort' have involved fake news bulletins? Bernard M was paid 6 million compensation,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6571157.stm


was that for birds killed? Or damage to reputation as a result of participating in the exercise?