Source: Chris Scott, MEATINGPLACE, 10/29/14


The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) has announced that it has received reports of five different strains of H5 bird flu in China last month, including two that have never been reported to the OIE by China before.

The H5N8 and H5N3 strains were reported in September involving a duck and an unspecified bird sampled in northeast China during a national surveillance program, according to the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. The other strains included: eight outbreaks of H5N2 on farms, at bird markets and in a wetlands area in several provinces in China; 24 H5N6 outbreaks among ducks, geese and chickens at markets and farms; and an H5N1 outbreak involving 16 birds at local markets.

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