ELIZABETH JACKSON: As global concern grows about the risk of an influenza pandemic, China has announced its fourth outbreak of bird flu within three weeks.
More than 9,000 birds have died, and 350,000 culled after an outbreak in a county in north-eastern China.
Spokesman for the World Health Organisation in Beijing, Roy Wadia, told our correspondent John Taylor that it’s not an indicator that the bird flu situation in China is spiralling out of control.
ROY WADIA: Well if you think back to early last year, early 2004, there were actually a spate of outbreaks across 16 provinces in this country in a matter of just a few weeks. So it’s not the first time that you see things popping up everywhere so to speak.
Bird flu travels quite fast with the air and the wind. It actually gets spread by migratory birds as well. So there are a number of factors that can actually contribute to the speed of these outbreaks coming out.
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