China kills 13,000 birds in northwest to control what it calls an epidemic of bird flu . 500 fowl that died in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region tested positive for H5N1 . In late January , China confirmed its sixth case of bird flu in a human . The first two cases were from the same family and both had been infected by migratory birds.
China kills 13,000 birds in northwest to control what it calls an epidemic of bird flu . 500 fowl that died in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region tested positive for H5N1 . In late January , China confirmed its sixth case of bird flu in a human . The virus has killed more than 200 people since 2003 .