date:Apr 10, 2013
rea also have stopped serving chicken.
Agricultural officials are also collecting tissue and blood samples from poultry in advance of a plan to slaughter any found carrying the H7N9 virus. This sampling and slaughter program will include live poultry market in all of Chinas big cities.
Chinas poultry farms last year produced 18.23 million tons of chicken, up 6.7 percent from 2011. The outbreak has reduced daily sales by up to 50 percent. A spokesman for Chinas National Poultry Industry Associa