Updated: 11:35, Saturday February 10, 2007
Pakistani officials say the H5N1 virus has been found again in chickens and peacocks in Islamabad.
It is the third outbreak of the virus in the city in a week.
MohammedAfzal, spokesman for the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, said laboratory tests conducted on samples from one home in the capitalcity had confirmed the birds had been infected.
But he addedpeople should not panic, as it had not spread to commercial farms, andthat poultry, eggs and meat were still safe to eat.
The virus badly affected Pakistan's poultry industry last year when authorities slaughtered thousands of birds
There have been no reports of the disease among humans in Pakistan.
