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China has just reported yet another outbreak of bird flu. This time in a northern province.

Last week a lorry driver contracted H5N1 bird flu in a town in the south of China, very close to Hong Kong, and China recently suffered an outbreak in a remote region to its East.

Of course China is a vast country, however there is much poverty amongst its rural population, so domestic poultry plays an important role in local economies. I’ve not been to China, but I imagine that rural people live in close proximity to their poultry as they do in other disadvantaged countries. The fact that China is suffering these outbreaks in a number of seperate areas, must be of real concern, as the lives of many rural people could be blighted by this diease.

Chinese officials are acting quickly to contain these outbreaks, but it seems that as they deal with one outbreak, another occurs somewhere else in the country.

Lets hope that they can contain these outbreaks effectively, but you can’t help wondering if we are seeing the start of bird flu becoming endemic throughout China.