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Avian influenza confirmed in Poland

07/03/2006

The Polish authorities informed the European Commission on Sunday March 5 of confirmed cases of high pathogenic avian influenza virus H5 in two dead swans in the city of Torun, north-west of Warsaw. Samples will be sent to the Community Reference Laboratory for avian influenza in Weybridge, UK, for further tests to determine if this is the H5N1 virus.

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