Tibet Reporting Outbreak In Poultry

 

# 1560

 

Tibet has seen the H5N1 bird flu before.  Last March they had an outbreak in their capital city Lhasa, and poultry was culled and markets were closed for a time.

 

Today we get another report of H5N1 infected birds in Tibet.

 

 

First, this terse announcement from Xinhua News.

 

 

China confirms new bird flu case in Tibet

www.chinaview.cn 2008-01-29 19:01:38
 

    BEIJING, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) announced Tuesday it has confirmed a new bird flu case in southwestern Tibet Autonomous Region.

 

    The China National Bird Flu Reference Laboratory confirmed Tuesday the once suspected bird flu case hitting Gongga County on Jan. 25 was caused by the highly pathogenic H5N1 subtype avian influenza virus, the MOA said.

 

 

While the Reuters report, which followed minutes later, adds some details.

 

This from The Straits Times.

 

Jan 29, 2008

China reports bird flu outbreak in poultry in Tibet

 

BEIJING - CHINA has detected an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu in poultry in Tibet, a government website said on Tuesday.

 

A total of 1,000 poultry have died of the disease in Gonggan county since Jan 25, while another 13,080 have been culled, the Ministry of Agriculture said on its website http: www.agri.gov.cn.

 

'The National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory confirmed the virus as a subtype of the H5N1 strain,' it said.