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Tarlai, 20 kilometres southeast of Islamabad - 20 April 2006 1. Wide pan of area 2. Wide exterior of gates to chicken farm where H5N1 strain of bird flu was found 3. Gates of quarantined farm marked with red tape 4. Poster on gates reads (English): ''Restricted Area'' 5. Empty compound behind gates Islamabad - 21 April 2006 6. Wide of National Agricultural Research Centre 7. Animal Husbandry Commissioner Dr. Mohammed Afzal, Ministry of Agriculture spokesman 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Mohammed Afzal, Animal Husbandry Commissioner: "Clinical evidence and post mortem lesions indicate that the disease is suggestive of avian influenza. We immediately quarantined the farm, culled the birds as quickly as possible, doing more of a cordoning of the area so that people cannot visit, people cannot go out." 9. Cutaway sign 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Mohammed Afzal, Animal Husbandry Commissioner: "We are taking all necessary precautions that are possible. At this time it''s almost impossible to predict, honestly speaking, how the virus will spread or how it will, but I''m hoping we''ll be able to contain the virus." 11. Chickens FILE Charsadda, North West Frontier Province - February 2006 12. Various of chickens being culled STORYLINE: The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been confirmed at five more poultry farms near the Pakistani capital Islamabad and some 25,000 chickens were culled there, an agriculture ministry official said on Friday. The disease was reported at the farms in Tarlai, a village about 20 kilometres (13 miles) from Islamabad, said Mohammed Afzal, a spokesman for the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock. The outbreak in Tarlai was reported days after the deadly strain was confirmed at a farm in another village near the capital. Pakistani authorities confirmed the first outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu at two chicken farms in the country''s northwest last month. There have been no reported cases of human infections. On Tuesday, the Ministry of Health said that tests carried out on four people over suspicion they had bird flu were negative. United Nations officials could not be immediately reached for comment on the latest outbreak at the poultry farms. Prices of chicken have fallen in Pakistan since bird flu was reported, and many people have switched to eating beef and mutton. Other countries bordering Pakistan - Iran, India and Afghanistan - have also reported the H5N1 strain of bird flu. Globally, there have been a total of 111 human deaths, most of them in Asia, from bird flu since 2003, according to the World Health Organisation. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/12f13338a56f890373098be5ca1f9a4b Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork