Special report: Global fight against bird flu

    KABUL, March 29 (Xinhua) -- A new case of bird flu has been identified in Afghanistan's capital Kabul, a local newspaper reported Thursday.

    The new case was detected in a dead bird found from the garden of Turkish embassy in Kabul city, according to daily Outlook.

    "A dead bird found in the garden of the Turkish embassy in Kabul on March 20 was infected with the H5N1 deadly strain of the avian influenza virus," Outlook said in its latest edition.

    However, no official at the country's Public Health Ministry was available to make any comment on it.

    Two more cases of bird were also confirmed in the Afghan capital city on March 23.

    Six more cases had earlier been detected in the country's eastern provinces of Kunar and Nangarhar.

    The first bird flu case in Afghanistan was detected in February 2006 and so far, some 20 cases have been confirmed but non in human body.