Chinese have more dead chickens from ProMed Mail

A new outbreak of bird flu has killed about 1000 poultry in northern China
in the 2nd such case in a week, state media reported. Some 72 930 domestic
poultry have been slaughtered and the outbreak is now under control, Xinhua
news agency said. Laboratory tests had confirmed the H5N1 strain of the
virus, which can be deadly to humans, it added.

The outbreak, in Henan New Village in Yinchuan, regional capital of the
desert-like Ningxia Hui region, follows a similar occurrence in
neighbouring Inner Mongolia. Beijing banned chicken exports from the Baotou
region of Inner Mongolia after H5N1 killed about 1000 chickens and ducks
there. Xinhua said on Tuesday that the Baotou outbreak, which came to light
on 27 Sep, had been brought under control. It was the 1st incidence
reported in China in 6 weeks.

According to official figures, 21 people in China have contracted bird flu
and 14 of them have died. The most recent fatality occurred in July in the
western region of Xinjiang. The latest case in Ningxia Hui brings to 40 the
number of bird flu outbreaks among poultry in China since October 2005.
China confirmed in August that its 1st human bird flu victim died in late
2003, 2 years earlier than previously reported.

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Dan Silver


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