Nigeria Reports Africa's 1st Bird Flu Case (AP)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060208/ap_on_he_me/nigeria_bird_flu"><img src="http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/nm/20060208/2006_02_08t050335_301x450_us_birdflu_nigeria.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=v3013HQ8YOQPtEVCtMQ93A--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="A Nigerian man walks past a chicken roaming on the streets of Abuja, February 6, 2006. (Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - A "highly pathogenic" strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus has been found in poultry stocks in Nigeria — the first reported case of the disease in Africa, the Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health said Wednesday.</p><br clear=all>