TESTS have shown that a wild buzzard found south of Copenhagen carried the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu virus, Danish authorities said today.
It is Denmark's first case of the highly pathogenic bird flu virus.
"It is H5N1," spokeswoman Gudrun Christensen for the Danish Institute for Food and Veterinary Research said.
The Institute said in a statement that it would send the virus to the European Union's laboratory in Britain for further verification.
Danish authorities would also investigate if the virus was related to other finds in Europe and Asia.
The test results came a day after neighbouring Sweden said tests showed that two wild ducks found on its east coast carried H5N1, its first confirmed cases of the deadly strain. Around a dozen wild birds have been found in Sweden with the H5 virus.
The dead buzzard was found earlier this week near the town of Naestved, about 70km south of the Danish capital Copenhagen in the southern part of the island of Zealand in a wetland area with many migrating birds.
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