Beijing, February 16 – China today confirmed seven cases of suspected bird flu, including the first in the remote Himalayan region of Tibet, which shares a long border with India.
A suspected case of the H5n1 strain of bird flu has been confirmed in Lhasa, capital of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, the Ministry of Agriculture said here in its daily bird flu situation report.
The National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory also confirmed six other cases in Macheng, Songzi and Honghu cities, Gong’an and Yangxin counties, in Central China’s Hubei province, and Shaoguan city in South China’s Guangdong province.
The Ministry also received the report of a suspected bird flu case in Baicheng city, in northeast China’s Jilin province, Xinhua news agency reported.
The local governments have culled poultry in the affected areas and taken prompt quarantine measures, and the epidemic is under control there, the Ministry claimed.
China has culled over two million poultry since the bird flu virus attacked chickens and ducks in many provinces of China.
