Article: Bird flu-hit county screens 3,600 people in close contact with sickpoultry

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.

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