Government vets were last night awaiting the results of tests on more dead birds discovered in southern England, following confirmation that three swans in Dorset had the deadly H5N1 flu strain. The environment department, Defra, said the dead birds had been found at Abbotsbury swannery by routine surveillance, and efforts were under way to discover where the virus came from; the outbreak poses little risk to human health. Swannery staff are being monitored for symptoms and have been given Tamiflu tablets as a precaution.
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