From the Mail and Guardian online...
"Laboratory tests in Ghana confirmed that the H5N1 bird-flu virus caused the sudden deaths of 2 000 chickens at a farm near Togo's capital, Lomé, the World Health Organisation representative in Togo said on Friday.
It is the first time the virus has been detected in Togo, the seventh West African nation to have reported an outbreak. In neighbouring Nigeria, more than one million birds have been destroyed since the first outbreak there in February last year; the virus has since been confirmed in 22 of Nigeria's 36 states. The farm in Togo, in the town of Sigbehoue, 45km east of Lomé, had received a shipment of chicks in February from neighbouring Ghana, according to a Reuters report. Avian flu was detected in Ghana last May. "
http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/&articleid=312280
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