{"id":9496,"date":"2013-05-20T15:28:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T10:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=9496"},"modified":"2013-05-20T15:28:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T10:28:35","slug":"bird-flu-costs-china-industry-65-bln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=9496","title":{"rendered":"Bird flu costs China industry $65 bln"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s human H7N9 bird flu outbreak has cost the country&#8217;s poultry industry more than 400 billion yuan ($65 billion) as consumers shun chicken, government officials said, according to state media.<\/p>\n<p>The sector has been losing an average of one billion yuan a day since the end of March, the Beijing Times said on Monday, citing Li Xirong, head of the National Animal Husbandry Service.<\/p>\n<p>H7N9 avian influenza has infected 130 people in China, killing 35, since it was found in humans for the first time, according to latest official data.<\/p>\n<p>Poultry sales have tumbled and prices plunged, Li said, causing major financial problems and job losses as a result.<\/p>\n<p>In a stunt to boost confidence, officials and poultry business leaders in the eastern province of Shandong held a widely reported all-chicken lunch last week, according to Chinese media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s human H7N9 bird flu outbreak has cost the country&#8217;s poultry industry more than 400&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}