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Hong Kong Paper Reports Bird Flu Outbreak in China's Liaoning

Posted on: Friday, 11 November 2005, 06:00 CST

Text of report by Vivian Wu headlined: "Another bird flu outbreak in Liaoning" by Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post website on 11 November

A previously unreported bird flu outbreak killed 1,400 chickens and geese in a Liaoning village last week, the South China Morning Post has learned. But local authorities have denied receiving any reports of the incident.

The outbreak occurred in the village of Mogutu, near Liaoning's northern border with Inner Mongolia on 3 November and affected more than a dozen villagers' poultry flocks.

Mogutu is in the north of the Fuxin Mongolian Autonomous County of Fuxin city . Another village in the south of the county reported an H5N1 outbreak on Wednesday.

Xinhua last night reported another H5N1 outbreak in Beining, Jinzhou city, where 300 chickens died in four villages and townships. This is the second outbreak in the city.

The series of outbreaks highlights the grim situation facing authorities as they battle to control bird flu in Liaoning, where more than 12.5 million poultry have been culled.

Township authorities in Pingandi, which administers Mogutu, said yesterday that they had not received any reports of the disease in Mogutu, a community of 1,100.

But a village official said samples of the dead poultry, which had swollen heads and bleeding from the eyes, were removed on Friday by staff from the provincial epidemic prevention bureau.

"The case was confirmed to be H5N1 bird flu the next day and we were told to cull all the poultry in the village immediately on Saturday afternoon," the official said.

Pingandi town government spokesman Mu Aiguo denied there had been an outbreak, saying "not a chicken in the town died and there was no H5N1".

Source: BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific

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