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

Hong Kong killed all the poultry ... of Agriculture announced allocation of up to $1 billion in additional funds to combat highly pathogenic avian flu, including support for biosecurity, financial ...

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

A traveler returning to Switzerland from Africa has been confirmed to have clade 1b mpox. This is the first detection of ...

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 ...

at the University of Hong Kong’s Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, and colleagues explain in their new study. As such, the need to prepare for a potential bird flu pandemic is urgent, with the US ...

How severe is the disease? This appears to vary. In Hong Kong in 1997 an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus affected 18 people and caused six deaths. In the current outbreak human illness is very ...