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April 08, 2013

China closes markets, culls birds to curb H7N9 virus
Shanghai (AFP) April 05, 2013
Shanghai ordered all live poultry markets in the city closed on Friday after culling more than 20,000 birds to curb the spread of the H7N9 flu virus, which has killed six people in China. The latest fatality was a 64-year-old farmer who died in Huzhou, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, local officials said according to the state Xinhua news agency. He was the second person from Zhejiang to die from the bird flu strain, with the other four fatalities in Shanghai, China's commercial hub. Th ... read more

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