Bird flu outbreak strikes duck farm
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CHINA confirmed a bird flu outbreak, the country’s sixth case since last October, at a duck farm in central Hubei Province, the Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday.
The outbreak in Daye, a city of more than 900,000 people, was confirmed as a case of the H5N6 strain of the virus, the ministry said.
The local government culled 681 birds after the outbreak, which infected 134 ducks and killed 86 in a local farm.
The outbreak is now under control, the ministry said.
The last bird flu outbreak in January killed 1,054 birds at a goose farm in central Hunan Province.
China has culled more than 175,000 birds since October as South Korea and other neighboring countries battled their own major outbreaks.
The H7N9 strain of the virus has caused 161 deaths in China since October. China reported 61 fatalities and 160 cases of human infection from H7N9 bird flu in February, the government said on Monday.
Live poultry markets have been shut in many provinces following human infections.
Chinese chicken prices sank to their lowest in more than a decade in February as fears of bird flu increased, hurting meat producers’ share prices and deepening concerns about demand in the world’s second-largest poultry consumer.
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