China culled more than 13,000 poultry in response to an outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the northwestern province of Xinjiang, National Chief Veterinary Officer Yu Kangzhen said, dpa reported.
The outbreak, which began at the start of this month, is the country's first since December, Yu said in a Feb. 10 report to the World Organization for Animal Health in Paris. It said 1,330 farmed birds were infected with avian flu, which killed 519.