BEIJING, Feb. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- China has put bird flu under control and there has been no report of a human contracting the disease, says a Ministry of Agriculture press release Thursday.

    China had reported five confirmed cases and 18 suspected cases of bird flu by Wednesday, since the first confirmed case was announced on Jan. 27, according to the press release.

    By Feb. 4, some 56,417 poultry had been infected with bird flu and 49,236 died. The country had slaughtered 1,215,057 chickens, ducks and geese to prevent spread of the disease. Enditem