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City won't ban import of live Zhejiang chickens
28/2/2006 9:47

Shanghai Daily news

The city has no plans to ban import of poultry from Zhejiang Province, where China's most-recent human case of bird flu was reported on Saturday.
The province provides about 10 percent of the live chickens sold in the city, according to Zhang Suhua, deputy director of the Shanghai Livestock Office.
On Saturday, the Ministry of Health reported a 9-year-old girl in the province's Anji County was confirmed to have bird flu.
So far no bird flu cases among poultry have been reported in Zhejiang.
"We have been carrying out strict checks of poultry that are transported into the city," Zhang said. "People should buy live chickens in designated food markets and cook them well."
Markets in the city are only allowed to sell live chickens that have quarantine and immunity certificates and don't come from areas hit by the bird flu. The livestock administration also takes blood samples from some chickens for testing.
"I believe live chickens sold in legal food markets are safe and I won't give up eating chicken, but I'm afraid of the bird flu," said Huang Liliang, 34.
Last Saturday, authorities also confirmed a 26-year-old woman in Anhui Province had contracted the fatal disease.