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China: Bird flu
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BEIJING: The bird flu crisis in China is "severe" and set to get worse as winter deepens, the government said yesterday as it revealed there had been 21 outbreaks in the world's most populous country this year. |
Officials made the grim assessment as they announced that China's cabinet, the State Council, had adopted tough emergency laws requiring local governments and people to respond quickly to bird flu and other animal diseases. |
In Jakarta, initial tests on a 35-year-old Indonesian man who died on Saturday suggested he had bird flu, doctors said yesterday, but further tests were needed to confirm what would be the country's eighth fatality from the virus. Agencies |
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