BEIJING: China said yesterday that it found a deadly strain of bird flu in pigs as early as two years ago, long before a regional outbreak in poultry that killed 27 people.
Chinese scientists found the H5N1 virus in 2002 in a sample extracted from a pig the year before, according to national chief veterinary officer Jia Youling.
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