Pakistan reports second outbreak of bird flu

Pakistan’s second outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain was confirmed today at a poultry farm near the capital, the agriculture ministry said.

Laboratory tests conducted by the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock on samples from the small poultry farm in Sihala, a village about 15 miles east of Islamabad, confirmed the H5N1 strain, said Mohammed Afzal, ministry spokesman.

Confirmation of the outbreak by the World Health Organisation was not immediately available.

Some 3,500 chicken at the farm have been slaughtered and ministry officials are taking samples from nearby farms to find out if the disease has spread, Afzal said.

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Posted by on 04/16 at 07:10 AM

Until now, there has been no case of human infection of bird flu in Pakistan. It seems that we are only concerned about being attacked by bird flu. I do not want to downplay the danger but I just feel
that we are not paying any attention to the plight of the poor farmers.
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Now Bird flu is coming to Pakistan[/url] and let us hope that it does not destroy
the poor farmers there too.

Posted by Razib Ahmed  on  04/16  at  05:22 PM
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