COTONOU (Reuters) – Benin has discovered two outbreaks of bird flu among poultry which it believes to be the deadly H5N1 strain, the first such cases in the West African country, a senior health official said on Friday.
The cases were discovered late on Thursday in Adjarra, some 9 miles north of the capital Porto Novo, and on a farm in the commercial capital Cotonou.
“We found several dead birds. We went ahead with tests which turned out to be positive,” Julien Toessi, a senior public health official, told Reuters in an interview.
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