Outbreaks were said to occur at two poultry farms in the central and southern parts of the country. Earlier this month the ministry reported the presence of the virus in the feces of migratory birds. A territory within 6.2 miles around the farms has been quarantined, to prevent the spread of the disease. Reportedly, some 62,000 birds were culled.
Since 2014, six people infected with H5N6 have died in China. Several cases of the H5N8 virus were recently been reported in Europe. In South Korea, the last outbreak of the H5N8 virus occurred in March at a duck farm.
Earlier this month Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian agency for health and consumer rights, recorded 15 cases of the H3N2 virus strain of the disease, which originated in Hong Kong and has killed about a million people worldwide since 1968.
