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Nigeria Makes Progress In Preventing Bird Flu

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Uploaded by on Feb 19, 2009

Avian flu was detected in Africa 2006 when cases were confirmed at poultry farms in Nigeria. The news sparked fears that the conditions in Africa -- poverty, porous borders and the lack of any regulation in the poultry markets -- could combine to produce an avian influenza pandemic. Instead a rapid response to the outbreak, the implementation of bio-security measures and more than a little luck has limited the spread of the disease. VOA's Brian Padden visited the region of Nigeria where the bird flu outbreak originally occurred.

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