South China's
Guangdong Province pledged to vaccinate all its poultry to
prevent bird flu outbreak, according to the provincial work meeting
on prevention and control of the virus held on Thursday.
"The epidemic situation is still severe since right now there is
a high chance of bird flu outbreaks due to the frequent movement of
migratory birds," said Ou Guangyuan, deputy secretary of the
provincial committee of the Communist Party of China.
The province will also create a system to diagnose bird flu
earlier and an emergency response system. Anyone who fails to
report bird flu outbreaks in time will be punished severely, Ou
warned.
Guangdong tightened its supervision over the farm produce
markets to prevent poultry that has not been quarantined from
entering in the wake of confirmation of the suspected death from
bird flu of a 32-year-old man in the province on March 5.
(Xinhua News Agency March 10, 2006)
