Britain: Lethal Bird Flu at Famed Swan Reserve (New York Times) The deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu has reached one of England?s most famous swan breeding grounds, the Abbotsbury Swannery on the Dorset coast. [News Source]

New laws to keep out bird flu (Trinidad Express) Government has mandated the National Avian Influenza Management Committee to update the laws that govern the movement, production, importation and processing of poultry in Trinidad and Tobago. [News Source]

Protection zone set up as deadly bird flu found at swan reserve (Times Online) Three dead swans that were found in a bird sanctuary in Dorset had the deadly avian flu virus H5N1, it was confirmed yesterday. [News Source]

Mute Swans Infected With Bird Flu In Dorset, England (Medical News Today) Authorities are trying to find out how the virulent H5N1 bird flu virus strain infected and killed three mute swans in Dorset, England. Other birds at Abbotsbury Swannery are being tested. Abbotsbury Swannery, approximately 9 miles from Weymouth, is a bird sanctuary. [News Source]

Bird flu virus stable but mutation risks remain: OIE (Reuters via Yahoo! News) The bird flu virus that has killed hundreds of people since 2003 has now stabilized but risks that it mutates into a new dangerous form cannot be ruled out, the head of the World Animal Health body OIE said on Thursday. [News Source]

Bird flu virus stable but mutation risks remain-OIE (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) The bird flu virus that has killed hundreds of people since 2003 has now stabilised but there is still a risk that it mutates into a new dangerous form, the head of world animal health body OIE said on Thursday. [News Source]

Bird flu kills three swans in England (Russian Information Agency Novosti) LONDON, January 10 (RIA Novosti) - The deadly H5N1 bird flu strain has killed three mute swans in Dorset, southern England, agriculture officials said on Thursday. [News Source]

H5N1 bird flu strain kills three swans (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) The highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu strain has been confirmed in three wild mute swans found dead in Dorset, Defra said on Thursday. [News Source]

Deadly Bird Flu Strain Confirmed in Three Dead Swans, U.K. Says (Bloomberg.com) Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza was detected in three dead swans in southwest England, the U.K. environment ministry said. [News Source]

Bird flu virus found in three dead swans in Dorset: ministry (AFP via Yahoo! News) Three swans found dead on a nature reserve in south-west England have tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said Thursday. [News Source]

Bird flu discovered in mute swans (BBC News) Three mute swans in Dorset have been found dead after contracting the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu. [News Source]

H5N1 bird flu virus reassuringly stable: animal health chief (TODAYonline) Health workers collect blood samples from a pigeon in the neighbourhood of woman who died of bird flu in Jakarta, December 2007. Bernard Vallat, director general of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), has said that the H5N1 virus that causes deadly avian flu has proven remarkably stable and action to curb outbreaks of the disease are highly effective. [News Source]