China's State Forestry Administration said in Beijing on Monday
it had received no report of avian flu among migratory birds since
June of this year.
The conclusion was based on the observations from 118 monitoring
stations for epidemic diseases of terricolous wild animals across
the country, said Zhuo Rongsheng, director of the administration's
Department of Wildlife and Forest Plants Protection.
The 118 monitoring stations under the administration serve as
the mainstay of China's bird flue monitoring system.
More than 400 similar monitoring stations have also been
established by local governments across China.
"All the local forestry authorities have banned people,
livestock and poultry from entering the areas where migratory birds
gather, in a bid to avoid mutual contagion of possible avian flu
among migratory birds, livestock and poultry," Zhou said.
Since autumn this year, the H5N1 avian flu has been reported in
north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Hunan Province in
center, and Anhui Province in the east, but no human infection of
avian flu has occurred in China, according to the Ministry of
Agriculture.
Local governments in the avian flu-hit areas have slaughtered
all poultry and taken compulsory quarantine measures on all those
within five kilometers, the ministry said.
(Xinhua News Agency November 1, 2005)