Qinghai H5N1 Re-emerges in Pakistan
Recombinomics Commentary
February 7, 2007
The H5N1 strain of avian influenza was found to have killed 18 of 40 chickens raised in a coop in the northern city of Rawalpindi, which joins the capital, Islamabad, said Mohammad Afzal, animal husbandry commissioner at the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock.
A separate outbreak was reported in peacocks kept by a household in Manshera city, in the country's North West Frontier province, Afzal said over the telephone from Islamabad today.
The above comments describe the re-emergence of Qinghai H5N1 in Pakistan. It was first reported at this time in 2006. Recent outbreaks have also been reported in Krasnodar, Hungary, and the UK, as well as several countries in Africa.
These outbreaks in 2007, parallel reports from 2006. More reports of confirmed H5N1 are expected in Pakistan as well as Europe, the Middle East, and Africa,
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