SYANGAN (Hong Kong), November 15 (RIA Novosti, Mark Zavadsky) - A fresh outbreak of bird flu has been registered in China's western Xinjiang-Uighur Autonomous region, a Hong Kong-based newspaper reported Tuesday.
According to Ta Kung Pao, the outbreak was registered November 11, when about 1,400 chickens died in two areas not far from Urumchi, the capital of the province, which has a population of about 19 million people and borders on Russia, and other countries.
The local authorities ordered another 200,000 poultry within several kilometers around the pockets of infection to be culled.
Experts from China's Agriculture Ministry are currently working in the province, the paper said and blood samples from the dead poultry had been sent for analysis to a Beijing laboratory.
This is the 10th outbreak of bird flu registered in China in the past one and a half months.