Kuwait on Friday reported the first known case of deadly bird flu in the Gulf region, saying a wild flamingo was carrying the same strain of the H5N1 virus that had killed scores of people in Asia.
A Kuwaiti official from confirmed tests on a migrating flamingo found dead last week on a local beach showed it had the H5N1 strain. A falcon found in a shipment at Kuwait Airport had the milder H5N2 strain.
Kuwaiti officials stressed there were no indications of any bird flu symptoms among humans and poultry and eggs from local farms were free of the disease.
