Human Bird Flu Appears in Djibouti, First in Horn of Africa (U.S. Department of State) Djibouti is the latest country to report the appearance of highly pathogenic avian influenza in humans, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), with a May 12 account of illness in a 2-year-old girl. The child’s symptoms first appeared April 23, and the presence of the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus has been confirmed now by the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit 3 (NAMRU-3), a Cairo-based [News Source]