Bangladesh bird flu worsening: UN

0 Comments | AFP, January, 2008

DHAKA (AFP) — Bangladesh needs house-to-house surveillance to fight bird flu because the situation has worsened and is "posing a danger to public health," the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said Thursday.

The statement from the UN's FAO came as neighbouring India battled its worst outbreak of bird flu -- believed to have spread from Bangladesh, which has been reporting sporadic outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 strain since February 2007.

"The situation has worsened in the past week compared to the first few months of the outbreak. The international community is very concerned," FAO's Bangladesh chief Ad Spijkers told AFP in Dhaka.

"We took the concern to the minister Wednesday and donors are going to meet with the government very soon to discuss...