China reports three new bird flu outbreaks
China’s Ministry of Agriculture today announced three new outbreaks of bird flu, two in the west and one in the south, resulting in the killing of nearly 175,000 birds, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
An outbreak in Urumqi, the capital of the far western region of Xinjiang, killed 38 birds on November 16, prompting the culling of 8,388 birds, Xinhua said. Another in Ningxia province’s Yinchuan city on Nov. 17 killed 230 poultry, with 66,800 culled. On the same day in the southern province of Yunnan, 2,500 birds died in the city of Chuxiong, and authorities later put 99,400 birds to death, Xinhua said.
