Bird-flu virus is found in Chinese frozen duck export

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The bird flu virus was found in processed frozen duck meat shipped for human consumption from China to Japan two years ago -- another reminder of how easily the disease can cross borders and how hard it is to kill, health officials said.
In a recent study published online in the journal Virology, a team of Japanese researchers reported a form of the H5N1 virus was found in duck meat exported from China's Shandong Province into Japan in 2003.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday this was not the first time the virus has been found in processed meat, but it stressed the findings illustrate the virus' strength and presence in Asian poultry stocks.

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