China has announced an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Hunan Province, which is located on the southern border of Hubei Province, the epicenter of the new rapidly spreading Coruna virus.
The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported on its website Sunday that the disease had appeared on a farm in Shaoyang District of south China's Hunan Province, noting that 4,500 out of 7,850 chickens on the farm died from the disease.
A statement issued by the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said yesterday that the local authorities culled 17,828 chickens after the outbreak.
No human cases of HIV were reported in the province, according to the newspaper's website.
Avian influenza is a viral disease that targets birds, but in rare cases it is transmitted to humans, and is caused by more than 12 types of viruses. When the disease affects humans, it may be fatal.
Fever
Symptoms of bird flu include sudden fever in which a person's temperature reaches 38 ° C or more, headache, cough, fatigue, chills, muscle and joint pain, diarrhea, and stomach disorders.
Usually, the period of time from the time the virus enters the body and the onset of symptoms - known as the incubation period - is three to five days.
The outbreak of the H5N1 virus in Hunan coincides with the Chinese authorities' efforts to contain the spread of the Corona virus, which has so far killed more than 300 people.
China has stepped up measures to contain the Corona virus, while the first death from the virus has been announced outside the country.
The Philippine Health Department said a 44-year-old Chinese from Wuhan, the epidemic center in central China, arrived in the Philippines and died Saturday in a hospital in Manila.
The National Health Commission of China said today that about 304 people died of the disease, adding that the number of cases jumped from Saturday to 14,308 cases after the largest increase in the number of infections in one day.
a ban
At least 171 cases have been registered in more than 24 other countries and regions, including the United States, Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong and Britain.
Many countries have applied a travel ban to China, airlines have suspended their flights and evacuated their citizens' governments, threatening a slowdown in the world's second largest economy.
The Chinese central bank said Monday it would inject 1.2 billion yuan ($ 173.8 billion) in cash into the market in the form of securities, which would later be bought back at higher prices as the stock markets prepared to resume their activities after extending the lunar New Year holiday.