TIRANA, March 8 (Xinhuanet) -- A chicken found dead on a southern Albanian farm has been tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu, Agriculture Minister Jemin Gjana said on Wednesday.

    The chicken was found in the village of Cuke some 290 km south of the capital Tirana, the minister said.

    Cases of the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, which has killed at least 92 people, mostly in Asia, since 2003, have been reported in Albania's neighbors, including Greece, Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia. Enditem