Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

Hong Kong’s Centre for Food Safety (CFS) has suspended the import of poultry meat and products, including eggs, from ...

A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive ...

Hong Kong killed all the poultry ... of up to $1 billion in additional funds to combat highly pathogenic avian flu, including support for biosecurity, financial relief for farmers and vaccine ...

Paton, University of Iowa (THE CONVERSATION) The flu ... avian influenza viruses. Although H5N1 mainly infects birds, it occasionally infects people, too. Human cases, first reported in 1997 in ...

How do people get bird flu? Although H5N1 mainly infects birds, it occasionally infects people, too. Human cases, first reported in 1997 in Hong Kong, have primarily occurred in poultry farm ...

In Hong Kong, people started keeping birds because ... After the 1997 outbreak of bird flu, the government introduced stricter rules about owning birds. According to 2005 census data, birds ...