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Fearing Bird Flu, China Culls 55,000 Chickens

China's Xinjiang region has culled more than 55,000 chickens and other poultry following an outbreak of a highly virulent bird flu that has infected 16,000 birds, the Ministry of Agriculture said Tuesday. The H5N6 strain of the virus was confirmed in Yining, a city of 500,000 people, and has killed 10,716 birds, the ministry said. The fourth flu outbreak among poultry since October, it brings the total cull since then to more than 170,000 birds. Flocks are particularly vulnerable...

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