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

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 ...

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 ...

The H5N1 avian influenza virus, first detected in humans in Hong Kong in 1997 ... further adaptation or recombination with seasonal flu could significantly increase the risk of a pandemic.