Authorities of Azerbaijan identified a dog, bearer of bird flu virus

In Azerbaijan, where three persons have died of bird flu, the authorities found a dog, bearer of the bird flu virus. United Nations for Food and Agriculture, confirmed this disease in Afghanistan, showing that after it had covered almost whole Europe, the bird flu expands in other regions of Asia, avoided until now. Thus, in India it was found the second focus of H5N1 in high pathogen version and transmissible to human, to many birds, found dead. Independent tests set that the pandemic of Myanmar was provoked by a lethal variant of the disease. Myanmar, one of the poorest countries of Asia, isolated on international level, has required foreign help. A team of the United Nations is already in the region and tries to find solutions for isolating the focuses. UN spokesman stated that the virus H5N1 was discovered on six places, taken from birds of the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul, and in Jalalabad, in east of the country. The case of Azerbaijan with the dog bearer of the virus confirms, the head of Municipal Health Department, Victor Savin, said, the danger of a pandemic of bird flu in case when one of those 50,000 of homeless dogs of Chisinau could get infected of a dead bird. Victor Savin said that there have to be undertaken urgent measures to solve the problem of homeless dogs. Since the pandemic blow, in 2003, over 100 persons died of bird flu, the majority of the from Asia.