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35 in bird flu-hit area under medical observation
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-02-10 10:18
Local health department of a north China's province has put 35 people in bird
flu-hit Yangquan city under close medical observation, sources with the
provincial government confirmed Thursday in Taiyuan, capital of North China's
Shanxi Province.
The state avian flu lab confirmed on Feb. 7 that the H5N1 strain of highly
pathogenic bird flu was the killer of 15,000 fowls at a fowl-run in Yijing
Township, Yangquan City, north China's Shanxi Province.
The provincial health department said that all of the 35 peoplewere workers
with the farm who had close contact with the dead birds. They have been
restricted at their home to receive medical checks twice a day.
Vet departments in Shanxi has so far culled 187,745 poultry within three km
from the affected areas after the province activated its emergency reaction
program on the outbreak of the disease.
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