Avian Influenza, popularly referred to as bird flu, is now in 18 states in Nigeria and has affected over 2.5 million chickens resulting in the loss of several billions of naira, the Nigerian Institute of Animal Science has said.
Avian Influenza or bird
flu is an infectious viral disease of birds. While most Avian Influenza viruses
do not infect humans, a few others like A(H5N1) and A(H7N9) have caused serious
infections in people.
NIAS, which is the
regulatory agency of the Federal Government for the regulation of all matters
pertaining to animal husbandry in Nigeria, on Friday stated that bird flu was
spreading so fast and as such all adequate measures to stop the spread must be
enforced.
-Punch
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