"More than 600 Nigerian animal health officials have been trained under a scheme funded by the European Union and the Food and Agriculture Organisation to undertake a nationwide surveillance to track bird flu. The experts will be deployed nationwide later in January, agriculture officials said."

Chilling words: “Any farm with any sign that looks like avian influenza, we simply depopulate and pay compensation”. Poor birds. If the fear is so great that the virus will mutate and jump to humans, shouldn't the humans who have had any potential contact with "farms with any sign of avian flu" be culled, just in case?