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Article: China suspends live poultry to Hong Kong following new human bird flu death
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- March 6, 2006
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HELEN LUK, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
03-06-2006
Dateline: HONG KONG
China suspended the supply of live poultry and pet birds to Hong Kong for three weeks after the Chinese health ministry reported a new human death from bird flu in neighboring Guangdong province, officials said.
Although no bird flu outbreak has been reported in Guangdong, the decision was made to "reduce the contact between humans and live poultry as well as to prevent the accumulation of live poultry in the markets," the government said in a statement late Sunday.
A Health, Welfare and Food Bureau spokesman said "recent surveillance of avian influenza indicated a growing risk of an outbreak in Hong Kong, ...