Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department culled 80,000 chickens suspected of bird (Hong Kong Wen)

2008-12-09 (21:27)



Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department began in the afternoon to Lau Fau Shan Fung Kong Tsuen, Yuen Long of the two farms, and Cheung Sha Wan wholesale market, killing more than 80,000 suspected H5 avian influenza infection in chickens. Hong Kong's avian-level sensors change immediately upgraded to serious levels and at the same time ban on chicken from local farms and imported live chickens from the Mainland 21. Hong Kong people this year, the winter solstice will be no live chickens to eat.

Food and Health  Secretary York Chow said Fung Kong Tsuen, Yuen Long farm of a bird flu outbreak, the first on-site chicken deaths, and on-site after the fight with only a dozen vaccines are part of the sentinel chickens and vaccination of chickens also Have been killed and the number of about 60. Administration and chicken samples taken from dead chickens tested and confirmed in the morning of the H5 bird flu positive.

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