HEFEI, July 8 (Xinhuanet) -- In Juchao district, Chaohu city of east China's Anhui province, where a new bird flu case was spotted Tuesday, people work hard to maintain a normal life as prompt, effective measures have been taken to keep the epidemic under control.

    Along the quarantine belt three km away from the inspected spot,a yellow warning line has been drawn to separate the quarantined zone from the outside area.

    "All vehicles traverse the quarantine belt have to be disinfected, and people are banned to enter or exit from the quarantined area at will," said a man in an exposure suit, who aredoing the work of disinfecting passing vehicles.

    On the road 100 meters to the spot, a number of locals are guarding the entrance to the village as only a pass permitted by local bird flu control command for people to enter or go out of the village.

    Entering the quarantined zone, several villagers are chatting under a tree.

    "As early as spring this year when the epidemic outbreak elsewhere in the province, we acquainted ourselves with the related knowledge about the epidemic and how to prevent and control it. So we are not too fearful when the epidemic occurred in the nearby village and we will try our best to cooperate with the control measures taken by the local government," said a villager, whose poultry was taken and culled Thursday morning.

    "The only thing we worry most is that the outbreak of bird flu in our village will affect negatively the profits of our village's poultry raising in the future," said a villager surnamed Li of Qigu village, where the confirmed case was reported.

    From 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Wednesday evening, more than 3,200 chicks at another poultry farm of Li Guangyin, whose poultry farm reported the confirmed bird flu case, were sealed in bags and suffocated.

    By eight o'clock Thursday morning, all 28,000 poultry of ten villages within a three-km radius of the inspected spot have been culled and disinfected, said Zhu Tonggui, a spokesman for the bird flu prevention headquarters of the Chaohu district.

    The bird flu case, confirmed to be caused by H5N1, a highly pathogenic bird flu virus, was the first case after an earlier outbreak between January and March, 2004 in China. Enditem