China - Dead Birds found in Bejing - initial tests rule out bird flu, citizens told not to panic

[sharon sanders]

machine translation -

Beijing Xiaoqing dead birds are frequent concerns cited people died of suspected Tian Han

2011年01月20日12:04​

At 12:04 on January 20, 2011

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Recently, Sun Xiang, Chaoyang District, Xiaoqing spate of sand village for ducks, magpies and other wild animals, death, fear of avian influenza, some villagers have to worry about.


Yesterday, the Chaoyang District Center for Animal Disease Control and Prevention (referred to Chaoyang Control Center) to identify animal autopsy, has initially ruled out bird flu and poisoning possibilities.

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Yang describes the public security officer, according to the sand village for a week, the village, the villagers began to receive the reflected, said in the Xiaoqing River and the Wenyu River near the intersection of the west, more and more people found dead ducks, magpies and crows and other wild animals, animal multi-body scattered by the riverside, and some have started to decompose.

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"Some people think that animals are being frozen to death, even when the game these dead food." Director Yang said the Xiaoqing River water is clear now, poisoning animals to death is unlikely, but can not rule out a potential pandemic of avian flu So he was very aware of these concerns, the village livestock stations to reflect the situation.

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Yesterday morning, the sun Sun Township Animal Control Center and station staff rushed to the sand village camp, and take inspection of animal carcasses.

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At 6:00, the prevention and control centers and Quarantine Bureau Caoke Zhang Chaoyang, said that after dissection of dead animals, animal poisoning no symptoms or signs of bird flu, the stomach was found in the food these animals, only small stones, to judge by the initial cold weather, lack of food the birds, a number of poor physical fitness might be dead.

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He said villagers do not need to panic, but must not eat dead or wild things of unknown cause of death.

（记者王维维）​

(Xinhua Wang Weiwei)



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