A batch of bird flu vaccine has been exported to Kyrgyzstan via
the Turgart port in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, northwest
China, local sources said Friday.
The vaccine was for the H9 strain of bird flu, less dangerous
than the H5N1 strain currently spreading in some Asian countries.
It is the first time that bird flu vaccine was exported to foreign
countries through ports in Xinjiang.
Customs sources said the vaccine was produced by a biological
medicine company in Zhaoqing City of Guangdong Province, south
China, and will be used in a chicken farm in Jalalabad City of
Kyrgyzstan.
More than 100,000 chickens were raised in the farm, an overseas
subsidiary of the Xinjiang Dacheng Poultry Company, which buys the
vaccine against possible bird flu.
Outbreaks of H5N1 strain of bird flu have been found in the
No.12 Agricultural Division of the Xinjiang Production and
Construction Corps.
(Xinhua News Agency February 13, 2004)