Bird flu sample triggers health scare

Gbenga Bada 04:00 - 08 June 2016

Workers from the Animal Protection Ministry cull chicks to contain an outbreak of bird flu, at a farm in the village of Modeste, Ivory Coast, August 14, 2015. Ivory Coast said on Friday that the H5N1 bird flu had spread to a third location in the count...

The virus, which had raged in several parts of the continents in the last six years, has become one of the most watched by medical practitioners and veterinarians in poultries.

Following a flu test on birds that left one positive for the H7N9 virus, thousands of chickens are being slaughtered in Hong Kong.

According to a report by Al Jazera, the trade in live poultry has been immediately stopped in the province where the bird tested positive for the H7N9 bird flu virus as well as country.

ALSO READ: Niger confirms outbreak of bird flu

In Nigeria, Stella Ojeme, Director of Information and Communication FCTA recently confirmed to journalists that Abuja has been declared bird flu free.

However, in the early days of June 2016, Niger confirmed the outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1bird flu virus at a poultry site in the capital Niamey.