 Swedish authorities said Tuesday that an aggressive strain of bird flu had been found in two wild ducks in southern Sweden, and that further tests would likely confirm it was the deadly H5N1 strain. Experts said the virus was a "highly pathogenic" form of the H5 virus, and samples had been sent to the European Union's reference laboratory in Weybridge, England for further analysis. "I would be surprised if it is not H5N1," Marianne Elvander of the National Veterinary Institute told the AP after a news conference. She said tests showed the virus was identical to strains found in Nigeria, Russia and China. "This means that we have bird flu in Sweden. It's serious, but not unexpected," Agriculture Minister Ann-Christin Nykvist told reporters in Stockholm. ...
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