Swiss find four more cases of H5 bird flu in wild ducks
AFP, March, 2006
GENEVA (AFP) — Swiss authorities have said that they had discovered four new cases of the broad H5 family of the avian influenza virus in wild ducks.
The Federal Veterinary Office said in a statement that that three cases had been detected in the northeastern canton of Thurgau near the German border and another in the nearby canton of Zurich.
Samples from the birds have been sent to the European reference laboratory in Britain to determine whether they had the highly ...