Detection of bird flu in Kuwait

Avian flu has arrived in the Middle East after Kuwait reported the first two cases of bird flu. Meanwhile, on November 10, China also reported the fourth outbreak of bird flu in Liaoning Province in the past two weeks amid fears that a fake bird flu vaccine could be marketed. The disease is worse.

Take a chicken blood sample to test bird flu at a poultry market in Kuwait City

Kuwait officials said they had detected bird flu in an imported peacock and a wild flamingo. They said they were infected with the H5 virus, but have not yet determined whether they are infected with the dangerous H5N1 virus.

In China, new outbreaks were discovered yesterday that raised the total number of bird flu outbreaks reported in China to 7. Officials said it destroyed 670,000 poultry in nearby farms. 2 areas of Jinzhou and Fuxin. These outbreaks occur amid concerns that fake bird flu vaccines could be marketed that could make the disease worse.

'Fake vaccines make the situation worse. We can see that infected chickens do not show symptoms, and this is a very bad thing , 'said Peter Cordingley, a spokesman for the World Health Organization (WHO).

China has not reported on human cases of bird flu. However, experts said it is unavoidable for people infected with bird flu when so far there are many infected birds like that. The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture said the government had quarantined 116 people after detecting the deadly H5N1 virus in dead poultry in new outbreaks.

T.VY (According to CBC News, AP, CNN)