New bird flu outbreak in China

[Lori Price CLG]

New bird flu outbreak in China

China has reported a new outbreak of deadly bird flu.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO) says the latest outbreak has infected 128 geese and ducks in the northwestern Xinjiang region, killing 63 of them.

It is the third outbreak reported by the Chinese government within two months.

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Lori Price

[Maple]

1. Perhaps if they didn't

try to stuff every duck they own into the SAME cage, they wouldn't have these problems.

[barb162]

2. yeah I agree here

[dArKeR]

3. China tries to stop usage of anti-bird-flu drug

China's government said yesterday it was dispatching experts to stop the misuse of an antiviral drug on poultry and denied a report that farmers were encouraged to use it, possibly making it ineffective for treating deadly bird flu in humans.
"We'll take measures soon to curb the action," an Agriculture Ministry spokesman, Xu Shixin, was quoted as saying by the government-run China Daily newspaper.

The report didn't say how widely the drug amantadine, meant to treat humans only, was misused.

The Washington Post on Saturday said that widespread misuse by Chinese poultry farmers led to the rise of a drug-resistant form of the H5N1 bird flu virus found in Thailand and Vietnam. The Post said Chinese farmers were encouraged to give the drug to millions of chickens in their drinking water in the late 1990s to suppress bird flu outbreaks. The Agriculture Ministry yesterday denied the report.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/06/22/2003260267