H5N1 Confirmed In A Game Farm In Sweden - Swedish Authorities Applying Community Control Measures

... The Swedish authorities have informed the European Commission today 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 will be sent to the Community Reference Laboratory in Weybridge to confirm is this is the Asian strain of the H5N1 virus... click link for more info. ...