Agriculture Minister Horst Seehofer said Thursday that tests have confirmed two swans found dead in northern Germany earlier this week carried the H5N1 bird flu virus, reported the Associated Press. Citing results of tests carried out by Germany's Friedrich Loeffler Institute, a federal animal health institute, Seehofer said the virus was «a sub-strain like that which was first registered in wild birds in China last year.» --SP 20 13 Local Time 17 13 GMT