Health Bureau on bird flu alert

2009-2-2 | NEWSPAPER EDITION

THE Shanghai Health Bureau has told local health facilities to stay alert after several cases of bird flu were reported in the nation within a month.

Following a request by the Ministry of Health, local health authorities are launching a 24-hour center and a daily reporting system working with the departments of agriculture and the industrial and commercial administration. Wet markets with live poultry will have special staff checking the food.

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THE Shanghai Health Bureau yesterday told disease prevention experts in the city to upgrade their supervision of flu-like diseases in the wake of a bird flu death in Beijing. A woman bought nine ducks from a market...