BIRD FLU ROUND UP IRAQ CYPRUS UKRAINE EU RESEARCH USA VACCINE
February 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BIRD flu has reached Africa, the Office International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, has confirmed, citing an outbreak in Kaduna state, northern Nigeria involving 46,000 cases. The news poses a dismal outlook for efforts to contain the disease given sub-Saharan Africa's shambolic regulatory and veterinary controls, and international health workers will inevitably fear the worst.
As a result, the development in one month of a vaccine 100% effective against the deadly H5N1 strain on poultry and mice by University of ...
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