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Thirty dead swans found amid 'suspected avian flu outbreak'
Health officials found 30 dead swans in the River Thames over the the space of a week, as fears grow of a new bird flu outbreak in the UK.
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) recovered the bodies and is carrying out tests to determine the cause of death. Sky News understands that the incidents have been reported around the inner and outer Millwall Docklands near Canary Wharf in east London over the past week.
Canal & River Trust ecologist Ben Macmillan told Sky News that a specialist contractor "collected 30 dead birds, all swans, from our waterways in and around West India and Millwall Dock". There is no risk to the general public, but Mr Macmillan said that to limit the potential spread of what he called a "suspected avian flu outbreak.
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