Chicken vaccinated in Xiangtai
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-10-28 07:18

A health worker vaccinates a chicken in Xiangtan, Central China's Hunan Province Thursday October 27, 2005. A bird flu outbreak in the region killed 545 ducks and chickens. Local authorities have culled 2,487 domestic birds within a 3-kilometre radius of the outbreak site, and vaccinated 43,750 others in the vicinity. [Xinhua]