Bird flu quarantine lifted in China's Guangdong

10/07/2008 -- 9:35 PM

Hanoi (VNA) - China lifted a bird flu quarantine in the southern province of Guangzhou on July 10 after no new cases were reported for 21 days. The trade of live poultry within 13 km of the epidemic region was resumed on the same day, China’s Xinhua News Agency quoted the Ministry of Agriculture as saying. The ministry also urged the local authorities to boost epidemic monitoring and prevention measures to effectively guard against any further outbreaks of bird flu. China has reported seven bird flu outbreaks among poultry so far this year in the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the southwestern Tibet Autonomous Region, the southwestern Guizhou Province and in Guangdong Province. The Ministry of Health reported in February this year three human bird flu cases in the central Henan Province, southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Guangdong Province. All three people died from the illness.-Enditem
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