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Article: Hong Kong plans to kill all chickens Massive effort to battle `bird flu' targets poultry at retail, wholesale outlets
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- December 29, 1997
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In a dramatic escalation in its battle against a "bird flu" virus
that apparently has killed four people, Hong Kong authorities Sunday
announced plans to slaughter all chickens in the territory, as well
as geese, ducks, pigeons and quail that may have been housed near
chickens.
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 they discovered the bird flu virus in samples taken from a
local chicken farm on Christmas Eve and after another chicken died
from the virus at a wholesale market.
The slaughter order was extended to all ...