Deadly bird-flu strain found in Nigeria

Authorities reported Africa’s first case of a deadly bird-flu strain, saying officials in afflicted Nigeria need help to prevent its spread on an impoverished continent poorly equipped to fight an outbreak.

Nigeria’s Agriculture Minister Adamu Bello yesterday confirmed findings by the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health, known as the OIE, of an outbreak of the H5N1 virus on a poultry farm in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna.