A bird flu quarantine imposed for a part of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region hit by an
outbreak last month has been lifted, local authorities said on
Wednesday.
A ceremony yesterday morning marked lifting the quarantine in
Jiuyuan District of Baotou City.
Experts with the regional headquarters for the prevention of
major animal-related epidemics said no new bird flu outbreak had
been reported since the last poultry culling 21 days ago.
Reports said 1,000 chickens and ducks died suddenly on a poultry
farm in Xincheng Village of Jiuyuan District in Baotou City on
September 27. The national avian influenza laboratory later
confirmed that H5N1 virus was found in samples of the dead poultry.
About 30,000 fowl within three kilometers of the farm were
subsequently slaughtered. No human infections were found.
A total of 42.6 million domestic fowl in the Inner Mongolia
Autonomous Region have received compulsory inoculations.
(Xinhua News Agency October 26, 2006)