China announced Tuesday that dead fowl found in the NW Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region were confirmed as H5N1 positive in tests by the national laboratory.
A two-year-old baby girl surnamed Peng (L) prepares to leave hospital after recovering from bird flu at the Taiyuan No. 4 Hospital, Feb. 3, 2009.
Health authorities in central China's Hunan Province have ended a week-long quarantine for 157 people who had close contacts with two confirmed bird flu cases, one of whom died.
Bird flu has reemerged in a village in Vietnamese southern Ca Mau province, Vietnam News reported on Monday, citing source with local agriculture department.