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Latest Hong Kong Bird Flu News

  • Around 37,000 at risk of death if pandemic flu strikes 24 Jul 2008 07:33 GMT
    ... braced for any future strain of the bird flu virus which could be passed among humans. ... world.” The last major pandemic surfaced in Hong Kong in 1968 and spread to the United ...

  • Around 37,000 at risk of death if pandemic flu strikes Wales 24 Jul 2008 07:18 GMT
    ... braced for any future strain of the bird flu virus which could be passed among humans. ... world.” The last major pandemic surfaced in Hong Kong in 1968 and spread to the United ...

  • Exporters count on new chicken farming 21 Jul 2008 16:11 GMT
    ... meat after a long break following the bird flu virus outbreak in 2004. The Livestock Development ... month: the EU, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Thai and Japanese officials are ...

  • Hong Kong June CPI up 6.1 percent year-on-year UPDATE 21 Jul 2008 09:31 GMT
    ... Hong Kong June CPI up 6.1 percent year-on-year UPDATE ... are being affected by the outbreak of bird flu,' said Daiwa Institute economist Kelvin Lau, in ...

  • 'Inevitable pandemic' will kill 75,000 21 Jul 2008 02:13 GMT
    ... if linked to the H5N1 strain of bird flu a type that has aleady jumped species ... up to four million died The 1968-69 Hong Kong flu was caused by an H3N2 strain. ...


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