French swans test positive for bird flu. Three swans found dead in a pond in eastern France have tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the Agriculture Ministry said Thursday. [News Source]

Success Against Bird Flu Slowed by Ongoing Animal Infections (U.S. Department of State) Despite the eradication of avian flu viruses in poultry in many countries, and reductions in the prevalence of infection in others, the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain continues to threaten bird and human populations around the world. Ambassador John Lange, the U.S. State Department’s special representative on avian and pandemic influenza, talks with USINFO about this finding and other conclusions ... [News Source]

Success Against Bird Flu Slowed by Ongoing Animal Infections (U.S. Department of State) Despite the eradication of avian flu viruses in poultry in many countries, and reductions in the prevalence of infection in others, the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain continues to threaten bird and human populations around the world. Ambassador John Lange, the U.S. State Department’s special representative on avian and pandemic influenza, talks with USINFO about this finding and other conclusions ... [News Source]

Success Against Bird Flu Slowed by Ongoing Animal Infections (U.S. Department of State) Despite the eradication of avian flu viruses in poultry in many countries, and reductions in the prevalence of infection in others, the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain continues to threaten bird and human populations around the world. Ambassador John Lange, the U.S. State Department’s special representative on avian and pandemic influenza, talks with USINFO about this finding and other conclusions ... [News Source]

Success Against Bird Flu Slowed by Ongoing Animal Infections (U.S. Department of State) Despite the eradication of avian flu viruses in poultry in many countries, and reductions in the prevalence of infection in others, the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain continues to threaten bird and human populations around the world. Ambassador John Lange, the U.S. State Department’s special representative on avian and pandemic influenza, talks with USINFO about this finding and other conclusions ... [News Source]

French, German Bird Flu Outbreaks May Signal More (Update2) (Bloomberg.com) July 5 (Bloomberg) -- France found three wild swans that died this week had avian flu, suggesting the lethal H5N1 virus is spreading again across Europe. [News Source]

French, German Bird Flu Outbreaks May Signal More Infections (Bloomberg.com) July 5 (Bloomberg) -- France found three wild swans that died this week had avian flu, suggesting the lethal H5N1 virus is spreading again across Europe. [News Source]

France says H5N1 bird flu virus confirmed in swans (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Tests have confirmed that three swans found dead in eastern France were killed by the H5N1 bird flu virus, the French agriculture ministry said on Thursday, France's first cases of the disease in over a year. [News Source]

French swans test positive for bird flu (AP via Yahoo! News) Three swans found dead in a pond in eastern France have tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the Agriculture Ministry said Thursday. [News Source]

New bird flu cases confirmed in Germany, suspected in France, Austria (People’s Daily) Germany has confirmed bird flu cased in wild birds in Thuringia while French and Austrian authorities have reported new suspected cases in wild birds in their territories, said the European Commission on Wednesday. In Germany, the natio ... [News Source]