Bird Flu Returns

Bird flu
China Daily / Reuters

Xinjiang, China
Two cocks fight during a local folk festival in Bole, in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. The area of China's far west has reported an outbreak of H5N1; a total of 4,850 birds died of the disease, prompting officials to cull nearly 30,000 more.

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