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Bird Flu Hits Scandinavia
Bei Bei Shuai, 35, right, of Indianapolis, leans on her attorney, Linda Pence, as she leaves the Marion County Jail in Indianapolis on bail Tuesday, May 22, 2012. Shuai faces a December trial on charges of murder and feticide. Shuai, a Shanghai native, ate rat poison in a suicide attempt in December 2010 when she was 33 weeks pregnant. Her baby was delivered by Caesarian section and died three days later. A judge last week set a $50,000 bond for her release after an appeals court ruled the case against her wasn't strong enough to keep her in jail. The case has drawn the attention of medical and women's rights groups who say Shuai's prosecution endangers the rights of pregnant women and could prevent women from seeking prenatal care out of fear of criminal charges. (AP Photo/Charles D. Wilson) (Charles D. Wilson)
Danish authorities said they too had found a wild bird infected with an aggressive strain of bird flu, but it was not immediately whether it was the deadly H5N1 strain.
If confirmed as H5N1, it would be the first case of the virus in Denmark. The Copenhagen government has not released any details but is expected to do so soon.
Wednesday, the Swedish National Board of Agriculture said tests done at a European Union lab in Weybridge, England, turned out positive.
"The laboratory in Weybridge has now confirmed that it is an H5N1 virus, just as we thought," Berndt Klingeborn, of the National Veterinary Institute, said in a statement.
The result was expected after Swedish authorities announced Feb. 28 that two wild ducks in southeastern Sweden were infected with the H5 subtype of bird flu. Experts said the strain was highly pathogenic, but sent samples to the EU lab for confirmation that it was H5N1.
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