Avian influenza: two new strains discovered

11-05-2008

EL MOUDJAHID

A French team of the Centre of International Cooperation in Agricultural Research for Development, CIRAD, announces the identification in Nigeria two new avian influenza viruses.

A highly pathogenic H5N2 strain taken from wild ducks, and a mutant virus H5N1. Both represent potential sources of pandemic.

These findings are the result of a ground survey launched recently by CIRAD in 7 African countries infected in the last two years by bird flu: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire and Egypt, Niger Nigeria and Sudan.

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