China: H5N1 bird flu reported in Ningxia Hui autonomous region
submited by kickingbird at Apr, 18, 2012 19:52 PM from Xinhua News Agency
More than 23,000 chickens at several farms in a village of Touying town in the city of Guyuan in Ningxia showed symptoms of suspected avian flu Friday and the National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory confirmed the epidemic was a H5N1 bird flu case after testing samples collected at those sites, according to the MOA.
The body said in a statement that a total of 95,000 chickens have been culled after the H5N1 bird flu case was confirmed.
"The epidemic is under control now," it said, as a team was dispatched to the quarantined area to guide epidemic prevention.
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