The New Dominion

Thanks to swift action by government organs at all levels, it looks like the outbreak of bird flu that occurred among poultry populations in Turpan on the 29th of December. A Xinhua News Network Xinjiang Channel news update proudly shares some details about the gruesome quarantine operations:

Poultry culling operations in the Turpan high-pathocenicity bird flu epidemic zone were completely finished by 6:15 early morning on the 5th of January and a total of 35170 domestic poultry were culled. On January 1, only 3050 chickens were culled; from the 3rd to the 4th 26835 domestic poultry were culled, including 23388 chickens from 8 different poultry farms and 2997 assorted poultry from 254 personal households, consisting of 1224 chickens (including 439 fighting cocks), 1726 pigeons, 9 ducks, and 38 geese. At 1:30 in the morning on the 5th, culling operations at two remaining chicken farms left in the epidemic zone began and culled an additional 3635 animals, bringing to a close a thorough and incident-free sterilization.

One almost senses a sort of weird glee in the way the author decides to incorporate the razor accurate culling statistics into the article - right down to the poor 9 ducks. After the culling operations were wrapped up authorities conducted sterilization operations at poultry slaughter houses, distribution centers, and poultry feces dumps within 3-8 kilometers of the epidemic zone.