Third bird flu outbreak in a week

A bird flu outbreak killed 545 chickens and ducks in a village in Hunan province, central China, and prompted authorities to destroy 2,487 others, the government has said. Evidence of the outbreak, the third in a week, were discovered in the village of Wantang on Saturday and confirmed Tuesday. Earlier cases in Inner Mongolia and Anhui resulted in the death of 2,600 chickens and ducks and 500 geese respectively. Bird flu has killed more than 60 people in Asia since surfacing in 2003, although there have been no reports of human cases of bird flu in China.