Disease-hit Africa slow to grasp bird flu threat, By David Lewis
12 Feb 2006 15:42:16 GMT

KINSHASA, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Hortense Muadi has heard about bird flu on the radio and knows it can kill.

But the Congolese mother of two didn't know it had arrived in Africa and, like many others on the world's poorest and most disease-stricken continent, she has more to worry about than watching out for sick chickens.