Analysis - Why doesn?t China report any H5N1 bird flu outbreaks?

Laidback Al · Mar 7, 2013

Why doesn?t China report any H5N1 bird flu outbreaks?

The map below depicts H5N1 outbreaks and surveillance results from northern Viet Nam.

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Despite protestation from China that poultry from Guangxi province are not infected with H5N1 (FT link), the testing of poultry smuggled from China into two northern provinces of Viet Nam showed that perhaps as many as 50% of the birds were infected with H5N1 (FT Link). Two other northern provinces in Viet Nam adjacent to China, Dien Bien and Ha Giang, have recently reported H5N1 outbreaks in poultry as well (FT Link).

China needs to be more open about its poultry and human outbreaks of H5N1.
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Analysis - Why doesn?t China report any H5N1 bird flu outbreaks?

Laidback Al

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