Dead swan in London tested H5N1 positive

(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-04-07 08:30

A swan is fed by a visitor in Hyde Park in central London, April 6, 2006. Tests have confirmed that a wild swan found dead in Scotland had the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu - Britain's first case of the disease, government officials said on Thursday.
A swan is fed by a visitor in Hyde Park in central London, April 6, 2006. Tests have confirmed that a wild swan found dead in Scotland had the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu - Britain's first case of the disease, government officials said on Thursday. [Reuters]


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