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December, 2007
Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department
has confirmed the fresh outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus on 27 December
2007 in Yankham village, 580 kilometres northeast of Yangon.
More than 1,000 chickens have been killed to contain the outbreak and so far
no case of human infection has been reported.
On 14 December 2007, health authorities
announced that a seven-year-old girl from Shan State
(East) had become the first confirmed human case of bird flu in the country.
The area of the latest bird flu outbreak was located around 60 kilometres
southeast of the village where the girl was infected with the virus.
The authorities have killed more than 700,000
chickens, ducks and quail since Myanmar
discovered its first outbreak of bird flu among poultry in the central city
of Mandalay
in February 2006.
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