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China reports fresh outbreak of bird flu

China reported a fresh outbreak of bird flu at a duck farm on Wednesday that led to the slaughter of more than 200,000 fowl.

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BEIJING: China reported a fresh outbreak of bird flu at a duck farm on Wednesday that led to the slaughter of more than 200,000 fowl.

 

Ducks began getting sick and dying at the farm in Changsha city, Hunan province in central China, on August 4, the Ministry of Agriculture said on its website.

 

By August 10, 1,805 ducks had died as local officials implemented emergency measures to begin the cull, with 217,000 fowl since killed, it said.

 

Neighboring poultry farms in the region remain under normal operation with no other outbreaks reported, according to the ministry.

 

Following testing of samples from the dead birds, the state veterinarian laboratory confirmed Monday that the ducks carried the H5N1 virus, it said.

 

The outbreak was the first in China since July 14 and the 38th reported among poultry nationwide since October last year.

 

Twenty-one people in China have contracted bird flu, and 14 of them died, according to official figures. The most recent fatality occurred last month in the western region of Xinjiang.

 

China confirmed this month that its first human bird flu victim died in late 2003, two years earlier than previously reported.

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