China's
confirms sixth bird flu outbreak at duck farm in Hubei
province
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[March 14, 2017] BEIJING
(Reuters) - China confirmed a bird flu outbreak, the country's sixth
case since last October, at a duck farm in central Hubei province,
according to a Ministry of Agriculture statement on Tuesday.
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The outbreak in Daye, a city of more than 900,000 people, was
confirmed as a case of the H5N6 strain of the virus, the ministry
said in the statement on its website.
The local government culled 681 birds after the outbreak, which
infected 134 ducks and killed 86 in a local farm, the statement
said.
The outbreak is now under control, the ministry said.
The last bird flu outbreak in January killed 1,054 birds at a goose
farm in central Hunan province.
China has culled more than 175,000 birds since October as South
Korea and other neighboring countries battled their own major
outbreaks.
Additionally, the H7N9 strain of the virus has caused 161 deaths in
China since October. China reported 61 fatalities and 160 cases of
human infection from H7N9 bird flu in February, the government said
on Monday.
Live poultry markets have been shut down in many provinces following
human infections, curtailing the poultry industry.
Chinese chicken prices sank to their lowest level in more than a
decade in February as fears about the spread of bird flu increased,
hurting meat producers' share prices and deepening concerns about
demand in the world's second-largest poultry consumer.
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The last major bird flu outbreak in 2013 caused more than $6 billion
in losses for the agricultural sector.
(Reporting by Hallie Gu and Josephine Mason; Editing by Christian
Schmollinger)
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