TOGO: Officials to slaughter more poultry to fight bird flu spread

LOME Thursday, September 11, 2008 (IRIN) - Officials have quarantined Agbata village in southern Togo, and plan to cull all poultry within a three kilometre radius, as they await lab confirmation of which avian flu virus killed 3,000 birds there on 09 September. Authorities have already slaughtered about 1,500 birds that survived this week's bird flu epidemic in three poultry farms in Agbata, 10 km from the capital, Lome. Togo’s government is awaiting lab confirmation to learn if it was the...