China has reported its eighth outbreak of bird flu in less than a month, as Thai authorities rushed to investigate the first confirmed human infection in the capital Bangkok.
China’s latest outbreak, which killed 2,500 birds, occurred in two villages in Jingshan county, part of Hubei province in the country’s vast rural interior, the agriculture ministry said yesterday in a statement on its website.
Health officials culled more than 31,300 birds on farms within a radius of three kilometers from the outbreak, according to the ministry.
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