by Playfuls Staff |
12th March 2006
According to a press release issued by the Cameroonian government, the presence of H5NI, the bird flu virus was confirmed in the Extreme north of the country. The virus was detected in Maroua, a county at a border with Nigeria and Chad. The bird infected is a duck. Cameroon is the fourth African state affected by the bird flu. [more]
The Cameroonian government declares that “the results of analysis of performed samples, at its request, by the Institute Pastor of Paris on some fowl of the city of Maroua revealed, in a case, this day, March 11th, 2006, the presence of the virus H5N1 of the bird flu in the considered zone”.
The other African states where the bird flu virus was disovered are Nigeria, Egypt and Niger. The international experts think that Africa, through lack of facilities, skilled personnels and means, is fast in trouble going to be facing this threat. The most part of the Africain countries took measures of restrictions of the importation of fowl, but the application of these measures seems difficult to implement on the ground to slow down the progress of epizootic.
In the meantime WHO reports that Nigeria's outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, initially confirmed at a single farm on 8 February, has now spread to several parts of the country. To date, outbreaks have been detected on more than 130 farms in 11 of the country's 37 states.
