A swan has been discovered with bird-flu antibodies near the Ukrainian border, Romania’s agriculture minister said today.

Romanian authorities were culling thousands of domestic birds in the Danube Delta region to prevent the spread of a deadly strain of bird flu that has decimated flocks and killed dozens of people in Asia.

Authorities were culling thousands of domestic birds in Romania today to prevent the spread of a deadly strain of bird flu that has decimated flocks and killed dozens of people in Asia.