Some 4,559 chickens have died of suspected bird flu virus over the past two months in Bengkulu. Some of the chickens had died suddenly due to bird flu virus (H5N1), Emran Kuswadi, bird flu disease control coordinator, confirmed here Saturday. Over the past one month in Kepahiang District (Central Bengkulu) and Bengkulu City, 559 chickens had been confirmed of being infected with bird flu virus and had died, ANTARA quoted Kuswadi as saying. However, 4,000 others had died suddenly two months ago in Seluma District, Bengkulu Province, but no bird flu virus was confirmed in the poultry's deaths, he said.
