HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's Agriculture Ministry said on Friday it had found a possible outbreak of bird flu in seagulls in the northern town of Oulu, but probably not the highly pathogenic strain that has caused deaths in Asia.
A ministry official said laboratory tests had identified the virus among "sick and dead seagulls" found in a park in Oulu, though it was not clear how many of them were carrying the disease or how serious a strain of flu it was.
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