Experts to test two children for bird flu in Nigeria
www.chinaview.cn 2006-02-12 00:13:37
LAGOS, Feb. 11 (Xinhuanet) -- Experts will test two children who have fallen sick in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna where Africa's first H5N1 bird flu virus was found, an official from the World Health Organization (WHO) told Xinhua on Saturday.
"The two children are sick. We are monitoring, but we cannot confirm (they have been infected by the deadly virus)," said Lola Sadiq, in charge of disease prevention and control at the WHO office in Nigeria by telephone.
Sadiq said that the two children lived close to a farm hit by the bird flu and that a WHO team had been sent to the field to test.
"If there is any suspicion, and it may be, we will send it out of the country for confirmation. From then we will know. It takes time," she added.
www.chinaview.cn 2006-02-12 00:13:37
LAGOS, Feb. 11 (Xinhuanet) -- Experts will test two children who have fallen sick in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna where Africa's first H5N1 bird flu virus was found, an official from the World Health Organization (WHO) told Xinhua on Saturday.
"The two children are sick. We are monitoring, but we cannot confirm (they have been infected by the deadly virus)," said Lola Sadiq, in charge of disease prevention and control at the WHO office in Nigeria by telephone.
Sadiq said that the two children lived close to a farm hit by the bird flu and that a WHO team had been sent to the field to test.
"If there is any suspicion, and it may be, we will send it out of the country for confirmation. From then we will know. It takes time," she added.
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