China controls outbreak of bird flu

Updated: 2005-10-29 15:02

Ducks are displayed for sale at a wholesale poultry market in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province, October 28, 2005. China and Thailand said on Friday suspected human cases of bird flu were false alarms but the U.N.'s health agency said it had no details on the Chinese case and wanted more information. Since last week China has revealed three outbreaks of the H5N1 virus that killed 3,800 chickens, ducks and geese.[Reuters]

A worker disinfects a poultry farmhouse in Mudanjiang, northeastern China's Heilongjiang province, October 27, 2005. Health authorities on Thursday refused to link the death of a 12-year-old girl who had flu-like symptoms with the bird-flu outbreak in central China's Hunan province. Initial tests turned out negative for the virus, but the result has to be confirmed, state media reported. Picture taken October 27, 2005. [Reuters]