Authorities in Brussels yesterday confirmed two "risk areas" had been set up in Germany to contain a new outbreak of avian flu on a poultry farm in the east of the country. The European Commission said Germany had applied necessary control measures, required under EU rules, and that the situation would be reviewed next week. The farm, where the "highly pathogenic" strain of bird flu broke out is in Markersdorf, in Saxony, close to the Polish border. All poultry on the farm, including 800 geese and 550 ducks, have been culled, and a protection zone with a 3km radius, and a surveillance zone of 10km set up. Nikki Tait, Brussels Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008