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Bird Flu Spreads Across Europe Photos


SWEDEN

Police halt the traffic at the cordoned-off area outside the nuclear plant in Oskarshamn, about 150 mile south of Stockholm, Sweden Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2006. An aggressive strain of bird flu was been detected in two wild ducks that that were found dead there. Further tests are expected to confirm it is the deadly H5N1 strain, the National Veterinary Institute said.

(Photo: AP Photo/Scanpix/Jeppe Gustavsson)