Bird flu epidemic
prevention workers prepare to put dead poultry onto trucks in
Hetian of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,
November 15, 2005.
China's Ministry of Agriculture said on Wednesday that a
new case of H5N1 bird flu in poultry had been detected in the
western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The case was
identified after domestic poultry at a farm in Xinjiang's Hetian
County died of unknown causes.??
The poultry were confirmed to have been carrying the virus on
Wednesday after testing at the national bird flu laboratory. The
MOA has sent expert teams to Hetian to contain any possible further
outbreak.
An emergency operation has been launched and local veterinary
departments have set up examination stations to disinfect people
and vehicles going into and coming from the affected area.
(Xinhua News Agency June 8, 2006)
