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Article: Hong Kong to kill all chickens // Effort aims to halt `bird flu'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 29, 1997
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HONG KONG The government will slaughter its entire chicken
population today in an effort to wipe out the "bird flu" virus blamed
for killing four people in the territory.
The mass slaughter of poultry, scheduled to begin today and last
24 hours, will affect 1.3 million chickens from 160 chicken farms and
about 1,000 markets. Health officials ordered the step late Saturday
after discovering the bird flu virus in samples taken from a chicken
farm Wednesday and after another chicken died from the virus at a
wholesale market.
The slaughter order was extended to all poultry - including
geese, ducks, pigeons and quail - at retail and wholesale outlets
because officials could not determine ...