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Bird flu found in Burkina Faso
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Monday May 22, 2006 06:11 - (SA)

 

OUAGADOUGOU - Burkina Faso has confirmed the presence of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, potentially deadly to humans, at three more sites including in the west African nation's capital.
 
In addition to the Ougadougou site, bird flu was detected in Bobo Dioulasso, the country's economic capital 365 kilometres to the west, and Sabou, 80 kilometres west, the animal resources minister, Tiemoko Konate, said.
 
Konate cited results from tests carried out by the World Health Organisation (WHO) based on 157 samples taken earlier this month.
 
He said preventive measures were being put into place including isolating the sites where infection was detected and destroying all poultry found there.
 
Burkina undertook the mass slaughter of several thousand domestic fowl in the suburbs of Ouagadougou after the H5N1 strain of avian influenza was detected on April 4.
 
More than 120 people worldwide have died from bird flu since it re-emerged as a threat in 2003 - most of them in Asia.
 
Scientists fear a global pandemic if the virus mutates and becomes easily transmissible between humans.
 
At least six African countries are grappling with outbreaks of H5N1 in birds - it has been publicly reported in Nigeria, Egypt, Niger, Cameroon, Sudan and Burkina - and human cases have been confirmed in Egypt and Djibouti.

Sapa-AFP