Sweden confirms H5N1 bird flu on commercial poultry farm

UPDATE:March 17, 2006 3:37pm EST
Swedish authorities now state that it was H5 and not H5N1 that was found. Further tests are needed to determine if it is in fact the H5N1 bird flu.

Sweden has confirmed the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was found in a duck on a game farm in the country, the second case on a commercial farm in the European Union, an European Union official said on Friday.

All birds on the farm, around 500 mallards and 150 pheasants, would be killed and destroyed soon, the European Commission said in a statement.

“This is the second confirmed outbreak of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza on a commercial farm in the EU, with the first being the outbreak on a turkey farm in the Department of Ain in France in late February,” said the statement.

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