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A chicken vendor waits for customers at a market in Beijing, Thursday, March 1, 2007. A farmer in southeast China has contracted the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, state media reported Thursday. Xinhua News Agency said it was China's first human case of bird flu since Jan. 10 when the government said a 37-year-old farmer in Anhui province in eastern China had contracted bird flu but had recovered.

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