ISLAMABAD (AFX) - The Pakistani authorities have reported the country's third outbreak of deadly H5N1 bird flu strain at a chicken farm near the capital Islamabad.
'We found some 3,600 birds dead at the farm on Friday evening. We collected samples and conducted tests,' Mohammad Afzal, spokesman for the Food, Agriculture and Livestock Ministry told Agence France-Presse.
'The tests Sunday confirmed it is a case of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu,' he said.
The H5N1 strain was found at a farm in Sihala town about 20 kilometers east of Islamabad, Afzal said.
Officials said no human cases have been reported.
Pakistan's first cases of the dangerous H5N1 strain were confirmed last month at two chicken farms in North West Frontier Province, bordering Afghanistan.
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