 Bird flu outbreak
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-02-12 11:36
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A journalist takes pictures at a duck farm on the outskirts of Nanning city, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, February 11, 2004. A total of 14 reporters from home and abroad arrived in Nanning Wednesday to gather first-hand information about bird flu situation of Dingdang Town in Longan County, where cases of bird flu were first reported in the Chinese mainland. This is the first journalists team organized by the Information Office of the State Council to the bird blu-hit area. [Xinhua]
A villager walks through a duck farm on the outskirts of Nanning city, Guangxi autonomous region, February 11, 2004. Fourteen of China's 30-strong provinces have confirmed or suspected outbreaks of the avian influenza, which has devastated flocks across Asia and killed 19 people in Viet Nam and Thailand. [Reuters]
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