Article: Roundup: Unsold live chickens to be culled daily in HK to avoid bird flu

Article: Asia should change lifestyle to avoid bird flu: WHO
Xinhua News Agency;  February 4, 2004 ;     416 words ......affected by the bird flu crisis should adopt...chickens and sell live chickens on the market...witnessed no second bird flu outbreak afterward...markets to choose live chickens and have them killed...measures to cope with bird flu. "They separate...market, ...

Article: China Watches Border Closely for Bird Flu
AP Online;  November 7, 2005 ;     652 words ......Japan; Graphic shows bird flu outbreaks in the...vehicles transporting live poultry under anti-bird flu measures announced...Only shipments of live chickens, ducks and geese...four outbreaks of bird flu since Oct. 14 but...measures to make sure bird ...

Article: China Monitors Border Because of Bird Flu
AP Online;  November 8, 2005 ;     700+ words ......its fight against bird flu, announcing Monday...closure of all 168 live poultry markets in...poultry under anti-bird flu measures announced...Only shipments of live chickens, ducks and geese...four outbreaks of bird flu since Oct. 14 but...measures to make sure ...

Article: China monitors borders, destroys 6 million birds as part of anti-bird flu measures
AP Worldstream;  November 7, 2005 ;     700+ words ......poultry as part of new anti-bird flu measures announced Monday...capital. Only shipments of live chickens, ducks and geese from three...reported four outbreaks of bird flu since Oct. 14 but has no confirmed...section where up to 2,000 live chickens, ducks and geese were ...

Article: Hong Kong culls all live chickens in markets as bird flu spreads
Xinhua News Agency;  June 11, 2008 ;     358 words ...Hong Kong culls all live chickens in markets as bird flu spreads HONG KONG...would slaughter all live chickens in the retail markets...used to see a major bird flu outbreak as early...had been sparks of bird flu cases but no major...

Article: HK citizens lack knowledge on correct means of bird flu protection:survey
Xinhua News Agency;  June 3, 2004 ;     348 words ......on correct means of bird flu protection: survey...of protection from bird flu. With the aim to understand...mid-March 2004, as bird flu ravaged South East...household buys one live chicken every three...48 million person- live chicken contacts each...be transmitted from ...

Article: Japan Confirms Third Bird Flu Outbreak
AP Online;  February 29, 2004 ;     579 words ......farm where Japan's third bird flu case was reported in Tanba...Agriculture officials fear bird flu may have spread from the...country's third outbreak of bird flu. About 18,000 of the 200...Asada, had continued to ship live chickens, meat and eggs to customers...saying ...

Article: Responding to Bird-Flu Scare, Hong Kong Suspends Poultry Imports from China.
Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan);  January 31, 2004 ;     661 words ......H5N1 strain of bird flu. Amid mounting fears of bird flu spreading into...suspend imports of live chickens from neighboring...The spread of bird flu in Asia has affected...percent of its live chickens from China. The...than 10 million live ...

Article: Officials confirm Japan's third outbreak of bird flu, farm operator under fire for failing to report bird deaths
AP Worldstream;  February 29, 2004 ;     505 words ......country's third outbreak of bird flu. About 67,000 of the...and continued to ship live chickens, meat and eggs to customers...But officials feared bird flu had already spread in...the slaughterhouse had bird flu and if so, which strain...

Article: Export of live chickens resumes from mainland to HK
Xinhua News Agency;  April 20, 2004 ;     195 words ...Export of live chickens resumes from mainland...first batch of 6,000 live chickens passed the quarantine...suspension due to bird flu outbreak. The first batch of live chickens come from chicken...spotted in January. Live chicken exports to...samples to test for ...

Article: HK opens border to live chickens
China Daily;  April 21, 2004 ;     437 words ...A batch of 2,000 live chickens from a company in Shenzhen...resumption of mainland live poultry shipments banned since the bird flu outbreak. The batch from...days. A total of 6,000 live chickens were offered to Hong...officials said no new bird flu cases have been ...

Article: Latest human death of bird flu prompts prevention bids
China Daily;  March 11, 2006 ;     614 words ......Shenzhen has been keeping a close eye on the bird flu situation. But with the confirmation of a man's death due to bird flu in Guangzhou on Sunday, the city joins other major...also getting on board to prevent the spread of bird flu. Some live poultry traders in wet markets in ...

Article: Brazil Launches Bird Flu Program
AP Online;  April 7, 2006 ;     313 words ......Brazil Brazil launched its bird flu prevention program on Friday...permit commercial shipment of live chickens from meat packers registered...making preparations to prevent bird flu for the past three years...vaccine for the disease. Should bird flu arrive in Brazil, ...

Article: Hong Kong proposes factory slaughtering of chickens to minimize bird flu risks
AP Worldstream;  April 2, 2004 ;     300 words ......officials said Friday they want to shut down sales of live chickens in markets and introduce central slaughtering. The proposal...food as fresh as possible and traditionally pick out live chickens that are slaughtered on the spot in small shops around...over several years. "We must try our best to ...