Dead Nigerian woman tests positive for bird flu

LAGOS, Jan 31 (Reuters) A Nigerian woman who died of flu symptoms has tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus, Information Minister Frank Nweke said today, the first reported death from the virus in the West African country.

The woman from Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos is the first confirmed human victim of the H5N1 bird flu in sub-Saharan Africa, after the deadly disease was first found in poultry in Nigeria last February.

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