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CHINA VOGELGRIPPE DESINFEKTION
Workers disinfect the very spot of bird flu outbreak at Liuyan Village in Yangjia Town of Dazhu County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2006. Altogether 1,800 chickens and ducks died between Dec. 22 and 25 last year in three households in Yangjia Town's Liuyan Village, which was confirmed to be an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu by the Ministry of Agriculture Jan. 3. Migrating birds may have triggered the country's latest bird flu outbreak in Dazhu County, according to the local government. A total of 12,900 fowls have been killed to prevent the possible spread of bird flu in the area. The notice board reads: Off-Limits. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo /Xinhua, Jiang Yi)
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XINHUA PHOTO
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Date created
20060105
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LIUYAN CHINA
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KEYSTONE
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AP XINHUA
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JIANG YI
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