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Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:10:46 +0200

Bird Flu Hong Kong News updated every 15 minutes. Stay informed on latest Bird Flu Hong Kong Avian Influenza H5N1 News.

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Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:10:46 +0200

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Hong Kong's Live Chicken Merchants Becoming Dying Breed: Video

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:23:19 +0200

June 17 -- Bloomberg's Zeb Eckert reports from Hong Kong on the city's shrinking number of live chicken merchants.

University of Hong Kong Experts Find Compound To Fight Bird, Seasonal Flu

Tue, 1 Jun 2010 12:58:00 +0200

Scientists have identified a chemical compound that can stop the H5N1 bird flu virus as well as seasonal human flu viruses from replicating.

In pictures: Swine flu in Hong Kong

Sat, 2 May 2009 08:18:02 +0200

3 Hong Kong birds test positive for bird flu

Wed, 4 Feb 2009 19:48:32 +0100

Three of the 21 dead birds that recently washed up on Hong Kong's shores tested positive for the deadly strain of bird flu, the government said Wednesday.

Hong Kong on high alert after bird flu outbreak

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:58:20 +0100

A World Health Organization official urged Asian governments not to let down their guard against bird flu, saying a new outbreak in Hong Kong shows the disease still poses a threat.

Hong Kong reports bird flu outbreak

Tue, 9 Dec 2008 18:00:15 +0100

Flu outbreak shuts Hong Kong schools for two weeks

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:58:00 +0100

More than half a million Hong Kong schoolchildren stayed at home on Thursday after the government shut all kindergartens and primary schools for two weeks to contain an outbreak of flu.

Hong Kong bans poultry imports in face of bird flu

Hong Kong bans poultry imports in face of bird flu HONG KONG, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- The government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Monday banned poultry imports from China's Inner Mongolia and Canada's British Columbia as a precaution against bird flu outbreaks confirmed in the two places. ...

BIRD FLU: HONG KONG DESTROYS ITS CHICKENS

00-00-0000 ASHA BLAKE: Overseas now. Chinese authorities are putting out an alert in the event the bird flu first detected in Hong Kong turns up in mainland China. Now, at the same time, in Hong Kong, this is day two of drastic measures that are being taken in an effort to stop the spread of ...

Hong Kong baby living in China has mild bird flu

A 2-month-old Hong Kong-born infant who lives in China has contracted a mild strain of bird flu, a health official said Tuesday. The baby girl, who contracted the H9 strain of avian influenza, is currently isolated at a local hospital and is in stable condition, Thomas Tsang, controller of Hong ...

Hong Kong takes measures to prevent bird flu

Hong Kong takes measures to prevent bird flu HONG KONG, July 6 (Xinhua) -- To prevent migratory birds that may harbor avian influenza virus from spreading the virus in poultry farms, Hong Kong's poultry farms have all installed bird- proof facilities, a local health official said Wednesday. Hong ...

Ducking responsibility: Hong Kong's bird flu.

EVERY hen in Hong Kong, some 1.4m of them, it was decided, would be slaughtered in an attempt to contain the "bird flu" that has so far killed four people and infected 12 others. Yet hens have been emerging dazed from the rubbish bags that were improvised as gas chambers, and it is said that ...

Hong Kong keeps alert against bird flu

Hong Kong keeps alert against bird flu HONG KONG, March 5 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong government Sunday continues to be on high alert against bird flu as a man in the neighboring Guangdong province died of H5N1. An expert in Guangdong province confirmed that the man, aged 32, caught fever and pneumonia ...

Bird Flu Kills Chicken Smuggled From Mainland to Hong Kong - New York Times

A chicken smuggled across the border from mainland China has died here of bird flu, Hong Kong officials announced late Wednesday. The case raised new questions about whether Chinese provincial officials are concealing the true extent of the disease. A villager living near the Chinese border ...

Hong Kong tests three for bird flu, closes aviaries following deaths of wild bird, chicken

HELEN LUK, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 02-02-2006 Dateline: HONG KONGThree people in Hong Kong were isolated at a hospital Thursday after coming in contact with a bird flu-infected chicken smuggled from China, raising fears of the disease spreading to the wealthy territory from the ...

Responding to Bird-Flu Scare, Hong Kong Suspends Poultry Imports from China.

By Agnes Cheung, Kyodo News International, Tokyo Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 31--Hong Kong imposed a temporary halt on importation of live birds and poultry meat from China late Friday after Beijing reported more suspected avian influenza outbreaks have been found in the mainland. "We ...

Dead bird found in Hong Kong tested for H5 bird flu

Dead bird found in Hong Kong tested for H5 bird flu HONG KONG, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Preliminary testing of a dead oriental magpie robin found earlier in Hong Kong had indicated a suspected case of H5 bird flu, authorities in the southern Chinesespecial administrative region said Tuesday.The dead ...

The Global Bird Flu Riddle

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:10:46 +0200

Bird flu patients die of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). What causes ARDS and what makes it fatal? Read it here …