11.11.2005

Kuwait has found the H5N1 avian influenza in one of two infected birds culled by authorities in the Gulf Arab state, an official said on Friday.
This is the first known case of H5N1 in the Gulf Arab region. "One was H5N1 and the second was H5N2," Sheikh Fahd al-Salem al-Sabah, head of the public authority said. Authorities had found one case a few weeks ago at Kuwait airport in a shipment of exotic birds imported from Asia. The whole shipment was culled.
Agriculture inspectors found the second infected bird, a migratory flamingo, a few days ago on Kuwait's southern coast.
Sheikh Fahd said it was the migratory bird that had H5N1.