BEIJING, Dec. 15 (Xinhuanet) -- The Ministry of Agriculture on Thursday confirmed a new bird flu case of bird flu in Jiangxi Province, east China.

　　According to the ministry, 1,640 ducks raised by a villager in Shangxi Village of Quanjiang Township, died recently. The provincial veterinarian department suspected the H5N1 strain of highly pathogenic bird flu was the killer and a state avian flu lab confirmed the suspicion on Thursday.

　　Veterinarian authorities in Jiangxi have culled 15,000 poultry within three kilometers of the affected area as soon as the outbreak was reported, said the ministry. Enditem