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China, Vietnam report new bird flu outbreaks
Associated Press
Published November 5, 2005
BEIJING - China and Vietnam reported new bird flu cases in poultry Friday despite intensive prevention efforts, while Japan prepared to destroy 180,000 birds to stop a suspected outbreak and Thailand announced plans to distribute its own generic antiviral drug.
As global jitters mounted, a meeting of ministers from 17 African nations appealed to the continent's governments to share resources.
"The first birds should hit the continent in two to three weeks," said Aberra Deressa, Ethiopia's agriculture minister, at the conference in Kigali, Rwanda. "We cannot move separately, we have to move together or we will fail."
The World Bank said Friday that it is putting the finishing touches on a plan to provide up to $500-million to poor countries to help them combat the bird flu. The virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu has devastated Asia's poultry flocks and killed at least 62 people since 2003.
China's latest outbreak - the fourth in three weeks - killed 8,940 chickens Oct. 26 in Liaoning province east of Beijing, the government said.
In Vietnam - where most of the human deaths have occurred - more than 3,000 poultry died or were slaughtered this week in three villages in Bac Giang province, said provincial vice chairman Nguyen Dang Khoa.
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