ANOTHER dead bird has been confirmed with bird flu near Abbotsbury Swannery.
The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) today announced that a Canada goose collected on February 25 one kilometre from the swannery tested positive for the lethal H5N1 virus.
The remains of the bird were found less than a kilometre from where the previous positive cases were collected.
It is the 11th bird to be found with the virus. Defra has imposed new restrictions for the next 31 days.
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