New Delhi: Pakistan has reported more cases of the deadly bird flu with strain of the disease found in chickens and peacocks in Islamabad and North West Frontier Province of the country.
H-5N1, which afflicted birds in the country one year ago, has been found in chicken flock in a house in the city of Rawalpindi and in a flock of peacocks in Mansehra, a main city in NWFP, PTI quoted Commissioner of Animal Husbandry, Rafiq-ul-Hasan Chughtai, as saying.
Though there is no report of the spread of the virus in any poultry farms anywhere in the country, all the chickens in the affected flock of 40 birds have died or been culled.
The poultry industry suffered huge losses when the bird flu hit chicken farms near Islamabad and several other parts of the country in March last year.
Health authorities, last week, had confirmed a third case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in Pakistan, after samples from dead chickens tested positive.
The new case had been reported from a home in Islamabad and was the third in the last one year. The first two cases were reported from homes in Rawalpindi and the northwest town of Mansehra respectively.
No cases of the strain being found in human beings has been discovered so far.
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