PYONGYANG, North Korea, April 9 (UPI) -- Ten days after South Korea offered to help North Korea contain a bird flu outbreak the communist nation accepted the offer.
Pyongyang, which has been working with U.N. officials involving cases found at three chicken farms, said Friday it will accept testing equipment and medicine from Seoul, the Korea Times reported Saturday.
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South Korea offered help March 29.
The outbreak in North Korea reportedly involved the H7 strain, not the H5N1 virus that has claimed more than 50 lives in Southeast Asia since late 2003.
Experts fear, however, that H7-infected birds could come in contact with H5N1, creating a lethal, fast-spreading hybrid strain that could be more easily transmitted to humans.
