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   Children tested for bird flu

From correspondents in Sambawa Farm, Nigeria

February 10, 2006 (EXCERPT)

"NIGERIAN health workers are to test two children who fell sick on their 

father's poultry farm to find out if they have been infected with bird flu, a 

state official said today.

"We have received a complaint ... from a farmer that the doves, geese and 

chickens he is raising are dying rapidly and his two kids are sick. They are 

coughing blood," said Sa'idu Baba Chori, a Kaduna State agriculture 

official.

"We're now going there to take samples of the birds for laboratory 

analysis. The kids will also be examined to diagnose the nature of their 

ailment," he told reporters outside Sambawa Farm, in northern Nigeria.

The new suspected outbreak which may have affected the children is 

nearby, on the outskirts of the city of Kaduna, he said."

 http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,18101391 -5001028,00.html

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	Children tested for bird flu From correspondents in Sambawa Farm, Nigeria February 10, 2006 (EXCERPT) "NIGERIAN health workers are to test two children who fell sick on their father's poultry farm to find out if they have been infected with bird flu, a state official said today. "We have received a complaint ... from a farmer that the doves, geese and chickens he is raising are dying rapidly and his two kids are sick. They are coughing blood," said Sa'idu Baba Chori, a Kaduna State agriculture official. "We're now going there to take samples of the birds for laboratory analysis. The kids will also be examined to diagnose the nature of their ailment," he told reporters outside Sambawa Farm, in northern Nigeria. The new suspected outbreak which may have affected the children is nearby, on the outskirts of the city of Kaduna, he said." http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,18101391 -5001028,00.html Edited by Rick

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	Bird Flu Spills Over Into Other Nigerian States Article Date: 09 Feb 2006 - 17:00pm (UK) The H5N1 bird flu virus strain seems to be tearing through Nigeria as the Agricultural Ministry there confirmed two more states have outbreaks of bird flu in poultry stocks. New outbreaks have been found in Kano state and Plateau state - both next to Kaduna state, where the country's, and Africa's, first confirmed cases of bird flu in poultry were reported a few days ago. There is growing concern among experts that the present outbreaks may be too much for the Nigerian authorities to cope with. Most countries in Africa have weak health and national contingency agencies. Just in Kano state, over 60,000 heads of poultry have died. How many other, not yet identified, birds have been infected is anybody's guess. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/healthnews.php?newsid=37482