H5N1 bird flu found in Pakistan after a year
ISLAMABAD, Feb 6 (Reuters) Pakistani scientists have found the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in small flock of chickens near the capital, Islamabad, almost a year after the virus was found in two poultry flocks.
Mohammad Afzal, Livestock Commissioner at the Ministry of Agriculture, said all the chickens in the flock of about 40 birds at a house in Rawalpindi, a city adjoining Islamabad, had died or been culled.
''They
tested
positive
for
the
H5N1
strain,''
Afzal
told
Reuters.
''It
has
been
contained
and
there
is
no
danger
of
the
spread
of
this
virus
because
there
are
no
poultry
farms
near
this
house.''
REUTERS
SY
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Story first published: Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 17:46 [IST]