Friday 10 April 2015

Niger isolates suspected bird flu farm as region takes precautions

By Abdoulaye Massalaki NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger has identified a suspected outbreak of H5N1 bird flu on a chicken farm in the southern town of Maradi, near the border with Nigeria which has confirmed cases of the virus in several northern states. Authorities in Niger said late on Wednesday they had isolated the farm and banned the transport of all poultry out of the town, the third largest in the country, as they waited for samples to be tested in Italy. The suspected cases in Niger come a week after neighboring Burkina Faso also confirmed an outbreak of H5N1. A number of nations in the region, where borders are porous and millions rely on poultry farming as a source of income, last faced a major outbreak of bird flu in 2006. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..

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