Farmers in Sweden are being told to put birds indoors or in covered fenced zones, following outbreaks of bird flu in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK this week.
The Stockholm-based EU disease control centre has warned travellers to stay away from birds on visits to China, after a Canadian fell ill and died of bird flu.
The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu will likely arrive in Sweden with migratory birds in a couple of months, the head of the National Board of Health and Welfare wrote in an opinion piece on
The decision by the Minister for Public Health, Morgan Johansson, to open a vaccine factory in Sweden has been lambasted by his Danish counterpart, Lars Lökke Rasmussen.
Sweden has the second-worst supply of Influenza vaccines in the western world, according to a new report commissioned by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
