Farm workers to be screened for bird flu virus
Health authorities in Nigeria today prepared to screen dozens of people who worked on a farm hit by a deadly bird flu strain, amid fears the virus may have for the first time in Africa spread to humans.
Yesterday, samples taken from a Nigerian family with two sick children suspected of contracting the H5N1 strain were sent abroad for testing, said Abdulsalam Nasidi, a federal Health Ministry official who visited them.
