Article: No bird flu outbreaks among poultry reported in China for 127 days

No bird flu outbreaks among poultry reported in China for 127 days

BEIJING, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- No outbreaks of bird flu among poultry have been reported in China for 127 straight days since Sept. 20 last year, said Minister of Agriculture Sun Zhengcai in Beijing on Sunday.

The record should be ascribed to the efforts the government and agricultural departments had made to prevent epidemics among animals, Sun said.

China used 10.6 million avian flu vaccines and 1.43 billion mouth- and-foot disease vaccines to immunize poultry and domestic animals last year. The vaccinated poultry and domestic animals accounted for more than 95 percent of the total numbers in the country, according to Sun.

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