had died and a family member had been infected but was responding to treatment. Information Minister Frank Nweke said in a statement that the government was boosting surveillance across Africa’s most-populous nation after the infections in Lagos, Nigeria’s biggest city. The World Health Organization had no immediate confirmation.
Meanwhile, Japan has confirmed an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in the western prefecture of Okayama, the third to be confirmed in the country since the beginning of the year, the Agriculture Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
The ministry also said a separate outbreak was suspected after 23 birds died at a poultry farm in the southwestern prefecture of Miyazaki, site of two earlier H5N1 flare ups and Japan’s biggest poultry-producing region.
