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Guangdong, Shanghai alert to bird flu
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-07-09 01:01
No new cases of bird flu have been reported in South China's Guangdong
Province since an outbreak earlier this year, allowing daily poultry deliveries
to Hong Kong and Macao to continue as usual, a local official said Thursday.
Cai Shujian, an official with the animal husbandry office of the Guangdong
Provincial Agricultural Bureau, said no new cases have been reported in
Guangdong since February 10.
A rooster waits to
be sold at a market in Beijing July 8, 2004. China culled more than 20,000
chickens in central Anhui province to isolate a possible outbreak of
bird flu, a local official said on Thursday.
[Reuters] |
However, the China National Bird
Flu Reference Laboratory confirmed on Tuesday that the latest death of chickens
in East China's Anhui Province was caused by the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu
virus.
The virus was found at a chicken farm of Juchao District, Chaohu, eastern
Anhui Province.
Following the outbreak, the provincial government urged the Guangdong
Provincial Headquarters for Control of Highly Pathogenic Avian Flu and other
relevant departments to step up prevention and treatment efforts.
"At present, there are plenty of vaccines in the province and we will
continue to do a good job preventing poultry from bird flu infection," said Cai,
who is also in charge of the Guangdong Provincial Headquarters for Control of
Highly Pathogenic Avian Flu.
Professor Xin Chao'an from the South China University of Agricultural
Sciences, said that because of the hot weather in Guangdong made another
outbreak of the bird flu unlikely.
Guangdong Province is not the last one to act.
Shanghai has also drafted measures to prevent a comeback of the avian
epidemic.
Jiao Yang, spokeswoman for the municipal government, said the government
would place equal emphasis on vaccination and monitoring to prevent the outbreak
of the highly pathogenic avian disease. It would also increase checks at highway
crossings and borders to prevent the avian flu from entering the city.
"We will not ban trading at the live poultry market that just resumed
operation, but we will step up market quarantine and supervision," said
Jiao.
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