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Article: 1st LD-China Focus: Sparrows in China carry bird flu virus: scientist
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- October 26, 2006
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1st LD-China Focus: Sparrows in China carry bird flu virus:
scientist
BEIJING, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists recently reported
that they found H5N1 bird flu virus in sparrows two years ago, the
first time the virus has been detected in the common, non-migratory
bird on the Chinese mainland.
Wuhan Institute of Virology in central China's Hubei Province
tested excrement samples from 38 sparrows after an outbreak of bird
flu in a county in Henan Province in 2004. Some of samples tested
positive of H5N1 virus, said Li Tianxian, a researcher with the
institute.
"There's no need for the public to panic. The findings are two
years old and there is no indication that sparrows pose a ...