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Army culls 6m birds in bid to contain flu virus Jonathan Watts in Beijing Tuesday November 8, 2005 The Guardian (UK) Chinese troops and farmers have slaughtered 6m poultry in less than 24 hours in one of the biggest culls since the outbreak of avian flu. The authorities have also banned sales of live chickens in Beijing. The army was mobilised on Saturday in Heishan, in the north-east province of Liaoning, to cull every chicken, duck and wildfowl within a two-mile radius of an outbreak which last week killed 9,000 birds. China has also asked the World Health Organisation to...

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