First H5N1 case in Ghana confirmed in poultry-WHO

ACCRA, May 2 (Reuters) Ghana's first case of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed by local laboratories and a US naval laboratory in Egypt, a World Health Organisation official said today.

Some 1,600 birds had already been incinerated at the infected chicken farm 20 km (13 miles) east of the capital Accra near the port of Tema, Dr Harry Opata, WHO disease prevention and control officer, told Reuters.

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