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Article: China in nationwide campaign against bird flu
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- January 31, 2004
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China in nationwide campaign against bird flu
BEIJING, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- As previously suspected bird flu
cases in two central provinces were confirmed and new suspected cases
reported in three other Chinese regions Friday, an increasing number
of Chinese localities are taking measures to handle the deadly
disease.
Up to early Saturday morning, 1,306,500 poultry within three
kilometers of the confirmed bird flu-hit area in Wugang City of
central China's Hunan Province have been killed and no new suspected
or confirmed cases reported in the affected region.
Local quarantine departments also destroyed 22,000 pieces of
poultry eggs and sealed up 12.1 tons of poultry eggs. The above ...