3 Hong Kong birds test positive for bird flu
Found on 04 Feb 2009 19:49 GMT
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
Found on 11 Dec 2008 19:59 GMT
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
Found on 09 Dec 2008 18:01 GMT
Three dead chickens tested positive for bird flu in Hong Kong, prompting the city to suspend poultry imports for 21 days and begin slaughtering 80,000 birds, an official said Tuesday.
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.
Publication: Xinhua News Agency
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
Publication: ABC World News This Morning
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
Publication: AP Worldstream
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
Publication: Xinhua News Agency
Ducking responsibility: Hong Kong's bird flu. (Hong Kong decides to slaughter...
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
Publication: The Economist (US)
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
Publication: Xinhua News Agency
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
Publication: The New York Times
Hong Kong tests three for bird flu, closes aviaries following deaths of wild ...
HELEN LUK, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 02-02-2006 Dateline: HONG KONG Three 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
Publication: AP Worldstream
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
Publication: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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
Publication: Xinhua News Agency
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