Swan tests positive for bird flu
Updated on 10 May 2008
Japanese officials are worried that the H5N1 bird flu virus may be spreading among wild birds in the north after the body of a swan tested positive for the disease, the third case in recent weeks.
No poultry have been affected so far, said Shigeki Oda, a farm official in the northern island of Hokkaido.
He said, however, that health authorities plan to inspect three nearby poultry farms and to disinfect 180,000 chickens as a precaution.
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