like creature. The World Health Organisation says that only domestic poultry are known to have played a role in transmitting the virus to humans, but has also called for further investigation into the significance of infection in other mammals. Afghanistan is virtually certain H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found in chickens, but is awaiting one final test for confirmation, a government official said on Wednesday. The government said on Monday an H5 subtype bird flu virus was confirmed in three chickens in Kabul and two in the eastern province of Nangarhar. The secretive Asian state of Myanmar has also just detected its first case of H5N1 and the virus appears to be spreading. Thousands of chickens have been slaughtered on five more farms in central Myanmar after hundreds of birds died of bird flu-like symptoms, the U.N. food agency said on Wednesday. The five farms are in the same area in Mandalay Division, 430 miles (700 km) north of Yangon, where the country's first outbreak of the H5N1 virus was found on two farms on March 8.
