Bird Flu Spreads to Azerbaijan

Avian flu was blamed for another death in Indonesia on Friday and spread to a new country after Azerbaijan said the lethal H5N1 strain had been found in wild birds on the Caspian Sea, the Reuters news agency report.

The virus was discovered in birds in the west African country of Nigeria earlier this week, capping what a senior United Nations official called a devastating spread from southern Asia over the past seven months. Indonesia said a woman being treated for bird flu at a specialist Jakarta hospital had died and another patient was in critical condition.