PARIS — Laos has had an outbreak of H5N1 avian flu on a small poultry farm in the northern part of the country, its first involving that strain in more than six years, according to a report today from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
The affected farm is in Luang Prabang province, and the outbreak began Sep 28. Of 130 chickens on the farm, 47 contracted the disease and died. The remaining 83 chickens and 20 ducks on the farm were destroyed to contain the outbreak.
Tests from a national lab came back positive for H5N1 on Oct 5. . .
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