Japan hopes to study bird flu control measures in China

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Japan hopes to study bird flu control measures in China

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Japan hopes to send a team of agricultural experts to China to gather information on bird flu monitoring and handling methods in the country, which just announced that avian influenza has been brought under control nationwide.

Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said Tuesday in a preliminary report that it is very useful to know howChina handles bird flu matters because China is Japan's third-largest poultry import source, after Thailand and Brazil.

According to the ministry, Chinese poultry exports to Japan arevalued at around 500 million US dollars.

"Thailand gave Japan a lot of information, and now Japan reallyunderstands the Thai situation," the report said, calling China togive Japan more information about the issue.

The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture earlier Tuesday declared initial-stage success in fighting against bird flu cases in just over a month and a half.

It attributed the control to a combination of poultry culling, disinfection and compulsory chicken vaccination.

Japan is not vaccinating poultry in the six prefectures where bird flu has been reported, because if the vaccine backfires, it increases the chance that the disease will return.

Of China's 49 outbreak cases, there are no relapses -- the control measures are extremely good, the Japanese farm ministry said.

Bird flu has turned up in six Japanese prefectures since it hita farm in west Japan's Yamaguchi Prefecture in January, and Japan is still fighting the disease.

Source: Xinhua

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