China reports new bird flu outbreak in Inner Mongolia

[Snowy Owl]

China reports new bird flu outbreak in Inner Mongolia

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200609301862.htm

Beijing, Sept. 30 (PTI):



China today said a new bird flu outbreak in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has killed nearly 1,000 chickens.


The national bird flu laboratory confirmed yesterday that the H5N1 virus was found in the samples of the dead poultry in a village of Baotou, the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) said here.


The H5N1 strain of bird flu had killed 985 chickens. Another 8,990 chickens had been culled to control the outbreak. The local agricultural department had quarantined the infected area and the outbreak was under control, Xinhua news agency quoted the ministry as saying. China has reported over 25 cases of bird flu in poultry, resulting in the culling of nearly 30 million chickens, ducks and geese.


The H5N1 virus has also killed 14 people in China since 2003.
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[Gert van der Hoek]

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Bird flu outbreak in N. China under control

Updated: 2006-10-02 22:34

An outbreak of bird flu in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region last week has been put under control and no human infection was reported, according to the regional government.

As of zero hour of October 2, no new deaths of poultry and no human case of bird flu were reported, a regional government spokesman said on Monday.

Nearly 1,000 chickens and ducks reportedly died suddenly in a poultry farm in Xincheng village of Jiuyuan District of Baotou city on September 27. The national avian influenza laboratory later confirmed that the H5N1 virus was found in samples of the dead poultry in Xincheng village.

Zhang Shaolin, owner of the farm, and his wife bought some 5,400 chickens and ducks from August 21 to September 20 from other places of the county.

The couple found more than 70 chickens and ducks dead in the evening of September 20.

Dead chickens and ducks were also found in the following days and the death toll rose to 985 as of September 27 when the couple reported the case to the veterinarian station of Baotou city.

Baotou city veterinarian station later reported the case and sent samples of the dead poultry to the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Animal Epidemic Disease Control Center and the national avian influenza laboratory.

Local agricultural department immediately quarantined the infected area. Zhang and his wife were also quarantined and people who had close contact with them were under observation.

To date, 17,616 chickens and ducks have been culled to control the outbreak.

A batch of bird flu vaccines allocated by the Ministry of Agriculture reached Baotou early Monday morning. All poultry in Jiuyuan District will be inoculated in the coming 10 days.

Investigation is being conducted to find where did Zhang bought these chickens and ducks and where did he sold the poultry.

China has reported nine outbreaks of bird flu in poultry this year, in northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, north China's Shanxi Province and Inner Mongolia, east China's Anhui Province, southwestern Guizhou and Sichuan provinces and the central province of Hunan.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/...tent_701148.htm

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

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China reports bird flu outbreak, second for the week

Wed Oct 4, 2006 9:58 AM BST

BEIJING (Reuters) - An outbreak of bird flu has killed 1,000 domestic poultry in a village in China's northwest, state television said on Wednesday, a day after the report of another outbreak in a nearby region.

The Agriculture Ministry said scientists had confirmed that the poultry near Yinchuan, capital of the Ningxia region, were killed by the H5N1 avian flu virus, China Central Television reported.

Another 72,930 fowl were culled to stop the virus spreading, it said.

"Now the outbreak has been effectively controlled," it added.

On Tuesday, Beijing authorities banned poultry from an area in Inner Mongolia, a region neighboring Ningxia, after a thousand birds there died from bird flu.

The H5N1 virus has spread through much of Asia's poultry flocks and infected large numbers of wild birds, particularly water fowl, which can act as carriers of the virus.

Bird flu has since spread to Europe, Africa and South Asia, killing at least 148 people worldwide since late 2003, when the virus resurfaced in Southeast Asia.

Scientists fear the virus could mutate into a form that could pass easily from person to person, sparking a global pandemic.

With the world's biggest poultry population and millions of backyard birds roaming free, China is at the center of the fight against bird flu. There have been 21 human cases, including 14 deaths, from virus and dozens of outbreaks in birds that have led to the culling of millions of fowl.

The latest report did not mention any human infections, nor explain the source of the outbreak.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/art...363138_RTRUKOC_0_US-BIRDFLU-CHINA.xml&src=rss