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Although a bit late this year, bird flu suddenly is making an appearance in poultry across Europe and Asia. Thus far, for reasons unknown, this year's showing doesn't seem to be as widespread as last spring.
Some have speculated that global warming, and a warmer than usual autumn, may have inhibited the spread over the past six months.
H5N1 bird flu found in poultry in eastern Afghanistan, U.N. says
The Associated Press
Published: February 21, 2007
KABUL, Afghanistan: Afghan authorities were culling poultry after an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in chicken in an eastern Afghan city, a U.N. official said Wednesday.
Bird flu was reported in the eastern provinces of Nangarhar and Kunar, said Serge Verniau, the country representative of the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization in Afghanistan.
Samples of chicken in the Nangarhar provincial capital of Jalalabad were found to have the H5N1 strain, while the exact type of the outbreak in Kunar has yet to be confirmed, Verniau said.
Afghanistan reported its first outbreaks of H5N1 in March and April last year in the capital Kabul and the provinces of Kapisa, Logar and Nangarhar. There have been no reported infections of humans.
