Via Reuters: Cameroon becomes fourth African state with bird flu.
Cameroon on Sunday became the fourth country in Africa to report an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu after the virus was found on a duck farm in its northernmost province.
"The first case of bird flu has been detected in the Far North province," the government said in a statement.Nigeria, Egypt and Niger have already reported cases of the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu strain in poultry flocks.
Cameroon Livestock Minister Sarki Aboubakary told Reuters the Pasteur Institute in Paris had identified H5N1 in samples taken from ducks which had died on a farm in the northern town of Maroua.
"Yesterday, we received confirmation from Paris that one of the samples was positive, that a case of H5N1 was effectively detected in one of the ducks," he said.
Cameroon's Far North province borders Nigeria, where Africa's first H5N1 bird flu outbreak was confirmed on February 8.
