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Article: Bird flu-hit county screens 3,600 people in close contact with sickpoultry
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- November 8, 2005
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Bird flu-hit county screens 3,600 people in close contact with
sick poultry
HEISHAN, Liaoning, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Local medical workers have
screened 57,000 people living in bird flu-hit Heishan County in
northeast China's Liaoning Province.
No human cases have been reported.
The information was released by Wang Yunwen, deputy secretary-
general of the Jinzhou municipal government.
The checks mainly focused on 3,624 people in close contact with
the sick poultry.
Fifty task forces have been set up to provide quarantine and
medical services at the affected areas, involving 180 experts from
the provincial, Jinzhou municipal and Heishan county-level
departments.
They are ...