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Article: Isolation ends in China's last two bird flu-hit areas (more added 3)
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- March 16, 2004
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Isolation ends in China's last two bird flu-hit areas (more added
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BEIJING, March 16 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Agriculture (
MOA) announced Tuesday morning the ending of isolation in the last
two bird flu-hit areas, thus calling an end to the 49-day campaign
over the deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu.
Jia Youling, MOA spokesman for highly pathogenic avian influenza
(HPAI) control confirmed at a press conference the removal of
isolation in Nanning of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous
Region and Lhasa of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
China has stamped out all the 49 bird flu cases since the first
one was confirmed in Dingdang Town, Guangxi's Long'an county on Jan. ...