New bird flu outbreak

     There has been another bird flu outbreak in . It occurred in Turpan in the Xinjiang region of China. 4,850 birds died as a result of the virus and 35,000 were killed as a precaution. No humans were infected because of the infection, to date, but China has quarantined the farmers who handled the birds. Luckily the birds hadn't migrated because of a warm winter, or the infection could have spread to the far reaches of China and beyond. The previous infection occurred in Southern China and 9,830 ducks were killed

      Even though this is an outbreak far away it still can affect us. What if one of the birds had been killed and sold before they realized that it was infected? With such an interrelated world a small infection somewhere can travel to the entire world. China was right in taking such precautions, this new virus needs to be stopped.