Flu scare sparks mass bird cull in HK
By Kahon Chan | China Daily | Updated: 2011-12-22 08:39
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A quarantine worker in Hong Kong on Wednesday prepares to dispose of chickens suspected of carrying the H5N1 avian flu virus. Tan Mingda / China News Service |
HONG KONG - Experts have reassured people in Hong Kong that the discovery of a chicken infected with the potentially lethal H5N1 avian flu virus in a city market on Tuesday raises no cause for alarm.
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