Paris, Jul 5 (Prensa Latina) French Health Minister Roselyn Bachelot raised the bird flue alert from moderate to high on July 5, when three swans died from the H5N1 strain in Mosela, northwest France. Consider that is the "found" birds. How many died in the woodlands that were not found.

Health minister Bachelot said although France is not threatened with a pandemic "it needs to be alert since the flu epidemic that spread after WWI, also known as Spanish influenza, was linked to birds."  At present, the strain has not mutated; the fear is it will.

Also in this weeks news in the livestock sub-sector, Nigerian poultry farmers were faced with a resurgence of the Avian Influenza (bird flue) H5N1 viral strain particularly in Kano, Katsina, Sokoto, Bauchi and Lagos states.