Pakistani authorities confirmed on Monday a fresh outbreak of the bird flu virus at a poultry farm in the country's port city Karachi. The presence of the deadly H5N1 strain of the avian flu was detected at a poultry farm, run by a paramilitary group in Guddap.

The group's spokesman Major Asad Ali confirmed a blood sample sent to Islamabad tested positive on Monday. Authorities at the farm have killed around 4,000 birds since the confirmation

High alert has been declared in Pakistan after bird flu was confirmed in the country's port city, Karachi.

All the hospitals have been issued the directives in this connection and isolation wards have been set up at hospitals, The News, a local newspaper, reported quoting the health ministry

The deadly bird flu virus, which is still wreaking havoc in West Bengal and Indonesia, has now reached Hong Kong and Pakistan with outbreaks detected in a theme park aviary and poultry farm.

An outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of the Avian flu was reported Friday at a poultry farm in Karachi, where over 5,000 infected chickens have died. Health officials are ruling out the possibility of human infection, however the Pakistani farm has been placed under quarantine

In response to the outbreak of psittacosis or parrot fever in a number of cockatiels, PetSmart Inc. self-imposed a 30-day quarantine in 775 of its 1,000 stores in 46 states.

Random testing of birds at PetSmart led to the discovery of the disease, which is characterized by coldlike and flulike symptoms. The disease can be passed on to humans, but the infection can be treated with an antibiotic

he H5N1 or the bird flu Virus has claimed its 100th life in Indonesia, the country hardest hit by the virus. The 9-year-old boy died at the Suliant Saroso Hospital early Monday.

On Sunday, a 23-year-old woman also died and laboratory test confirmed that the cause was the bird flu virus as the woman reportedly lived near a poultry slaughterhouse in East Jakarta. The virus has become endemic in birds in almost all 's 33 provinces