Pakistani health officials on Sunday confirmed a new outbreak of bird flu at a farm outside the southern city of Karachi, according to DPA. It was the third outbreak of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in the Karachi area this month, but limited only to fowl that tested positive at one farm, and no humans were infected. "It's a small outbreak in a isolated area," said Maqbool Jan Abbasi, an official at Pakistan's Ministry of Health. He said provincial authorities had alerted local hospitals and dispatched health teams to the area, around 15 kilometres outside Karachi, which is Pakistan's largest city and financial center. "If they find any other evidence they will cull," he said. Earlier this month, 12 poultry workers in Karachi were isolated and tested for bird flu following the detection of the H5N1 virus at two poultry farms in the city's Gadap district.
