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Article: Guangdong suspends live poultry shipments to HK on bird flu concerns
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- December 10, 2008
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Guangdong suspends live poultry shipments to HK on bird flu
concerns
GUANGZHOU, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- A 21-day suspension of live
poultry shipments from Guangdong Province to Hong Kong has been
imposed for fear of deadly avian flu spreading, an official at the
Guangdong Provincial Administration of Quality Supervision,
Inspection and Quarantine said on Wednesday.
Live chickens, pigeons and chicks are affected. The suspension,
which became effective on Tuesday, does not involve frozen poultry.
Hong Kong's Food and Health Authority has informed mainland
authorities that some 100 breeding and sentry chickens died on
Sunday at one live poultry farm in ...