Hong Kong joins mainland in seafood caution

(China Daily)
Updated: 2007-01-11 08:53

Medical experts have warned local residents not to eat uncooked or under-cooked seafood this winter, particularly when they travel to foreign countries such as Japan, where about 3 million people have suffered from gastro-intestinal infections caused by the Norwalk virus this year.

Following the public warning by the Ministry of Health earlier this week, a Hong Kong expert on infectious diseases, was quoted last Wednesday as echoing the same caution against raw seafood consumption by anyone planning to visit Japan in the coming weeks. He said a new strain of the Norwalk virus had appeared late last year, and the human immune system had yet to mount an effective defense again it.

(HK Headline Daily)