Press Release: Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5 confirmed in a game farm in Sweden: Swedish authorities applying Community control measures

The Swedish authorities on 17 March 2006 informed the European Commission of a case of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5, strongly suspected (but not yet confirmed) to be H5N1, in a mallard (duck) on a game farm near the town of Oskarshamn, on the eastern coast of Sweden. Samples were to be sent to the Community Reference Laboratory in Weybridge to confirm if this was Asian strain of the H5N1 virus.

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