H5N1 News: First cases of bird flu detected in Persian Gulf region
An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:
Kuwait has detected two cases of bird flu in fowl, a senior official said Thursday, but it was not clear if the virus strain was the deadly version that has devastated poultry in Asia and has triggered fears of a human pandemic.
The infected birds in Kuwait were the first known cases of the virus in the Persian Gulf region.
posted by Fergie @ 11/10/2005 05:17:00 PM
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