Bird flu quarantine lifted in central China
11 June 2007
Chinese authorities last Saturday removed a quarantine order on a village in central Hunan province where an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus killed more than 11,000 poultry in the middle of May, according to Xinhua (in Chinese). Experts with the regional headquarters for the prevention of major animal-related epidemics said that after a final checkup on Friday no new outbreak of bird flu had been reported since the last poultry was culled 20 days ago in Shijiping village in the city of Yiyang. No human infection was reported in the village. Earlier this week, the Ministry of Health confirmed a Chinese soldier had died from bird flu on June 3, 10 days after he was diagnosed with the highly infectious disease. China has reported a total of 25 human cases of bird flu since 2003, which have resulted in 16 deaths.
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