Times of Islamabad

Yet another deadly disease may spread in China s Hunan Province

Yet another deadly disease may spread in China s Hunan Province

BEIJING – Yet another deadly disease may spread in China’s Hunan Province.

China reported an outbreak of a highly pathogenic strain of H5N1 bird fluat a farm in Shaoyang city of the southern province of Hunan, the Ministryof Agriculture and Rural Affairs said on Saturday.

The case occurred on a farm with 7,850 chickens, 4,500 of which have diedof the bird flu.

The authorities have culled 17,828 poultry following the outbreak.