Monthlong bird flu quarantine ends
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-10-26 08:39 A bird flu quarantine imposed for a part of
north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region hit by an outbreak last month has
been lifted, local authorities said yesterday.
A ceremony yesterday morning marked lifting the quarantine in Jiuyuan
District of Baotou City.
Experts with the regional headquarters for the prevention of major
animal-related epidemics said no new bird flu outbreak had been reported since
the last poultry culling 21 days ago.
Reports said 1,000 chickens and ducks died suddenly on a poultry farm in
Xincheng Village of Jiuyuan District in Baotou City on September 27. The
national avian influenza laboratory later confirmed that H5N1 virus was found in
samples of the dead poultry. About 30,000 fowl within three kilometers of the
farm were subsequently slaughtered. No human infections were found.
A total of 42.6 million domestic fowl in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
have received compulsory inoculations.
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