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BEIJING (Reuters) - China is probing a possible human case of bird flu in a northeastern province, the World Health Organization said on Monday, the second area of the country to make such a precautionary diagnosis.The Liaoning provincial government, which has already culled some 10 million birds, said last week that preliminary tests had ruled out avian influenza in humans, though one chicken worker was suffering from pneumonia of an unknown cause."They said that there is a female...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has reported two new outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in poultry in the northeast province of Liaoning, bringing the total number of outbreaks to six since last month, Chinese media said on Thursday. New cases were reported in Fuxin and Jinzhou, both in the same province where an outbreak was announced last week. About 1,100 chickens died and the National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory confirmed on Wednesday that deaths involved the deadly...

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Health and veterinary officials from across the world hope to clinch a global plan on Wednesday for tackling bird flu before it mutates into a form that could sweep the globe and kill millions of people. Highlighting the threat, China said an outbreak there announced last week had now spread to 18 townships, making controlling the disease that much harder. The officials meeting in Geneva are focusing on steps to stamp out the H5N1 avian virus in...

By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - A bird flu outbreak in China's northeast has spread, state media said on Wednesday, prompting worried consumers to avoid poultry and world health bodies to seek more information from Beijing on the deadly virus. An outbreak in Liaoning province first announced last week had spread to another three townships, making it more difficult to control the spread of the virus, Xinhua news agency said. It is China's fourth outbreak in a month. The United...

By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - All poultry in a northeastern part of China hit by the country's latest bird flu outbreak are expected to be culled by Sunday, state media said, as the government steps up measures to stop the disease's spread. Some 1,700 officials, backed by armed police, have been sent to the affected county in Liaoning province to slaughter the birds, the official Xinhua news agency said. Up to a million birds would be culled, it said. China's State Council, or...

BEIJING (Reuters) - All poultry in a northeastern part of China hit by the country's latest bird flu outbreak are expected to be culled by Sunday, state media said, as the government steps up measures to stop the disease's spread. Some 1,700 officials, backed by armed police, have been sent to the affected county in Liaoning province to slaughter the birds, the official Xinhua news agency said, without saying how many birds would be killed. On Friday, China reported its fourth outbreak...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese wildlife farm has set up a hotline for people to report sightings of 13 runaway crocodiles who are likely to suffer as the weather cools, state media said on Thursday. Altogether 29 crocs escaped from the farm near the city of Benxi, about 800 km (480 miles) east of Beijing in the province of Liaoning, in the middle of August, when heavy rain raised the water levels above normal. Fifteen had been found and one killed, the China Daily said, leaving 13 at...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A bomb ripped through a crowded shopping mall in northeastern China on Wednesday, shattering glass windows and injuring 47 people, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The report did not mention fatalities but said one person had been seriously injured. A wanted murder suspect had tossed an "explosive package" at another man in a two-storey mall in Liaoning province's Liaoyang county, Xinhua reported. Police arrested the suspect -- who had fled the country but snuck...