Around three million domestic fowls in north China's Inner Mongolia
Autonomous Region have been inoculated following an outbreak of bird flu,
according to local authorities.
Nearly 1,000 chickens and ducks were reported to have died suddenly on a
poultry farm in the Xincheng Village of Jiuyuan District in Baotou City on
September 27. The national avian influenza laboratory later confirmed that the
H5N1 virus was found in samples of the dead poultry and the remaining 1,046
fowls were slaughtered to curb the outbreak. No human infections were found.
By September 28, 26,232 chickens and ducks within a radius of three
kilometers from the farm had been culled.
A batch of bird flu vaccines, 2.5 million milliliters in total, reached
Baotou on October 2 for the inoculation of all the poultry in the city.
Meanwhile, the 969 chickens and ducks infected with the H5N1 virus that had
been sold by the farm have been found. No new cases were reported.
China reported two new outbreaks of bird flu in the past fortnight, which
killed about 2,000 domestic poultry in the autonomous regions of Inner Mongolia
and Ningxia Hui.
