Libya's Health Ministry dismissed Thursday news reports about of five people who died because of infection with bird flu.
Head of the ministry's disease control Badr al Din al Naggar told MENA that such news was "baseless", adding the four deaths occurred as a result of acute pulmonary inflammation, and only one died after catching swine flu in Tobruk.
Al Naggar said there was only another detected case with swine flue, and it was placed under quarantine.