En un informe oficial del noroeste de China, se anunció que un brote del virus de la gripe aviar H5N1 ha sido descubierto. Aproximadamente 95,000 pollos fueron sacrificados a partir del brote en el municipio de Touying, Ningxia región de China.

El virus apareció por primera vez la semana pasada cuando 23,000 pollos comenzaron a mostrar síntomas de la "H5N1" del virus. Agencia de noticias Xinhua citando al Ministerio chino de Agricultura región de Ningxia como la fuente de su información.

Work teams have been sent to the affected area from the agriculture ministry to insure prevention of further contamination. The ministry says the “epidemic is now under control.”

China is one of the countries at greater risk for bird flu epidemics because they have the world’s largest chicken populations located in rural areas close to humans.

This past January a man died after contracting the bird flu in southwestern China’s Guizhou province. The health department authorities now announce another fatality this year, from the recent virus outbreak in the Ningxia region.