Health authorities have put 35 farm workers under medical observation after a bird flu outbreak among poultry on their farm in northern China, the government said Friday.
The measures were imposed after the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu killed 15,000 birds on the farm in Yangquan, a city in Shanxi Province.
The farm workers have been confined to their homes and are receiving medical checkups twice a day, the official Xinhua News Agency said, citing provincial officials.
Authorities in Shanxi have destroyed 187,745 poultry within three kilometers (two miles) of the farm in an effort to contain the outbreak, Xinhua said, reports the AP.
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