Four die of bird flu in Azerbaijan

BAKU: Four people were suspected of having died from the avian flu virus in Azerbaijan, the country's health minister said. Blood from the victims was to be analysed with the help of western laboratory techniques, after local tests failed to detect any sign of the strain, the minister said on Monday. In Azerbaijan, the H5N1 strain of the virus was first detected in February in migratory birds that turned up dead. Azerbaijan lies to the east of Turkey, where four children died of the virus in January.

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