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Article: Bird flu taking root in Hong Kong, health secretary says
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- February 3, 2006
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AP Worldstream
02-03-2006
Dateline: HONG KONG
Bird flu appears to be taking root in Hong Kong now that it has surfaced in both local wild birds and chicken, the territory's health secretary said Friday.
"It's not just Hong Kong. This virus will exist in neighboring areas, southern China as well as Hong Kong," York Chow said at a news conference.
"Since different kinds of wild birds and chickens have this virus, we can be quite sure that this virus is endemic in our birds," he said.
Later, health bureau spokeswoman Sally Kong said Chow meant that bird flu is endemic in Asia, not Hong Kong specifically.
International standards require that countries be certified as endemic by test results ...