Poultry cull in Xinjiang to stem bird flu
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MORE than 55,000 chickens and other poultry have been culled in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region following an outbreak of a highly virulent bird flu that has infected 16,000 birds, the Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday.
The H5N6 strain was confirmed in Yining, a city of 500,000 people, and had killed 10,716 birds there, the ministry said.
Flocks are particularly vulnerable to avian flu during winter and outbreaks are relatively common.
The culling comes amid fears about the spread of avian flu across Asia, with South Korea battling its worst outbreak and Japan and India also killing flocks.
South Korea is currently trying to contain the H5N6 strain, which has caused 10 human deaths in China since April 2014.
At least seven people on China’s mainland have been infected this winter with the H7N9 strain and two patients have died.
China has banned poultry imports from more than 60 countries.
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