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Vendor With Bird Flu Prompts China to Close Poultry Markets

by Reuters

   BEIJING --

   China will shutter poultry markets in a district of southwestern
   Sichuan province after a man fell ill with the H7N9 bird flu,
   state-owned China News Service reported Sunday.

   The 44-year-old man sold live poultry at a farmers market, China News
   reported, citing officials in Zigong city.

   Poultry markets in Zigong's Ziliujing district will be closed starting
   from midnight Monday, the report said.

   Cases of bird flu have been unusually high for China since last year,
   with three times more fatalities from H7N9 in the first four months of
   the year than in all of 2016, although deaths fell in April for the
   third consecutive month.