10 September 2008
An outbreak of avian influenza H5N1 has been confirmed in the West African nation of Togo for the first time since last year.
The virus was detected at a poultry farm housing more than 4,500 birds in the village of Agbata outside the capital, Lome.
The first avian influenza cases in Togo were discovered on a farm that had received a shipment of birds from Ghana, months before Ghana’s government announced a bird flu outbreak and an export ban in May 2007.