CHINA Confirms New Outbreak - Shanxi

I thought that China had claimed to have vaccinated all poultry in the country and now another outbreak.

I thought their claim that they had vaccinated their estimated billions of chickens in what was a month or so was unreal.

More Complex Than Thought


“While tracking poultry around Southeast Asia, Webster and his team
found that different geographical locales feature distinct sublineages of
the disease. They have identified at least four branches so far.

"This is the first clear indication that the H5N1 situation is more
complicated than we think," said Hon Ip, diagnostic virologist at the U.S.
Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin

In addition to their diversity findings, the team detected the virus among
apparently healthy birds in areas where deadly flu outbreaks have not
appeared.This is an especially troubling development, Webster notes.
"Don't worry about the [birds] that died, it's those that are alive and
apparently healthy and hosting this virus [that are of greatest concern],"
he said.Authorities must fight the temptation to conclude that there is no
bird flu problem among populations that appear healthy, he said. "When
the birds appear healthy but they are [carrying] this virus, then you've got
a serious problem," he said.

* Webster is a world class virus hunter - he raised the original alarm years
ago.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/02/0207_060207_ bird_flu.html

Don't you find it truly amazing that 15,000 birds died and yet not one human?