China reported an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in its northeast province of Liaoning on Friday, the fourth to hit the country in a month.
The disease has killed 62 people in Asia and infected 122 since late 2003, but in almost every case the virus is believed to have been transmitted through human contact with birds…
China’s latest outbreak was found in domestic and wild birds last week, an official at the Agriculture Ministry told Reuters, and 8,940 chickens had died and 369,000 domestic birds had been culled within a three-km (2-mile) radius.
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