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[Oracle]

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Glaring facts:

Poultry is traceable to it's farm origins; no virus found in samples from these farms.

Infected birds do not show symptoms of active infections.

Only birds located in the live markets located within the city are shown thus far to shed the virus. Note that most samples are fecal, not oral swabs.

This is the 'wet season' in Hong Kong, as the ICTZ moves northwards.

H5N1 has become endemic in poultry, existing at very low levels that elude detection by standard RT-PCR. The infection is entrenched along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway.

Guangzhou is not that far away. There was plenty of finger pointing at Hong Kong markets, as infective source, by affected markets in the Foshan district in March. Local authorities also hinted at 'smuggling' of birds, as though it couldn't possible originate within the city itself.

A total culling of poultry in these markets is foolish; it exerts economic hardship with little or no gain, when active disease is absent.

These birds aren't going to infect humans. They are going to be slaughtered anyway, what is the point of removing them from the food chain now??

[Commonground]

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A post-mortem inspection of chicken did not release the smuggling of chicken
June 12, 2008

[Ming Pao - Hong Kong's retail chicken stalls in monitoring avian influenza, mainly through regular sampling swab samples from dead chickens were found diseased chickens chicken traders immediately reported to the Department and the FEHD officers inspected chicken stalls twice a day. 2007 to date, the Department has not received any diseased chickens reported dead chickens, but chicken stalls in markets faecal samples found to H9 virus samples have doubled year-on-year.

07 dead chickens from the sick chickens had never reported

Liu Yan, deputy of the department said that retail chicken stalls in the licensing conditions set out, chicken traders dead chickens were found diseased chickens must be reported to the department, we have to keep the chicken to the documentation at least 60 days to the Department to investigate. However, the original FEHD staff would not view the daily chicken stalls to the documentation specified in the number of live chickens and chicken stalls in the actual sale of live chickens to see whether there are problems of smuggling of chicken. Liu Yan said, the department staff to view the frequency is "not less than twice a week," In the past 12 months, the investigation also had more than 70 times.

However, this data found that the department has never been in the past year retail outlets smashed any smuggling of chicken. Liu Yan acknowledged that the retail chicken stalls of the avian flu monitoring mechanism has room for improvement.

According to the department commissioned the University of Hong Kong retail chicken stalls in each of the faecal samples taken from the test results, found to be positive for the H9 virus samples are on the rise, and 05 by 2004 only 0.7 percent and 1.5 percent, to the 06 2.2 percent last year, 5,795 samples were positive 4.43 percent, as of April this year, the 2,618 samples, 2.6 percent are positive. Microbiologists warned that the data reflect the decline in the markets of live chickens immunity, if the H5 virus, the more explosive epidemic crisis.

Yuen Kwok-yung: the ideal is central slaughtering

Head of the Department of the Hong Kong University microbiology Yuen Kwok-yung said that the most important thing is to re-examine the retail market point of monitoring procedures, the ideal is to implement central slaughtering. At this stage can follow the example of Macau and Hong Kong from the Mainland live chickens in markets overnight, where the day the unsold chickens should be slaughtered and chilled, to avoid cross-contamination of chicken; month may add to four half-day of the Day; if Chicken stalls are found smuggling of chicken, chicken stalls will "nail card."

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Chicken traders promote compensation for each file at least 30,000 June 12, 2008
[Ming Pao Daily News - The government announced the ban of live chickens for 21 days, all live chickens from 50 farms and 470 retail outlets in trouble, loss or millions of dollars. Hong Kong Poultry Wholesalers and retailers would not dissatisfied with the government commitment to the full compensation, urged the Government to each affected poultry compensation of at least 30,000 to 60,000 yuan, a 470 live chickens to retail outlets estimated that the total amount of 20 million yuan.

Chicken farmers hope to shorten the ban period

New Territories farm is also the hardest hit, as 50 local farms to raise 1.6 million white chickens 21 days alone will cost an additional feed or as high as 10 million yuan (500,000 yuan per day). New Territories Chicken Breeders Association vice president, Li Liangji, with the hope today to discuss how to help the farms, and chicken farmers to urge the Government to shorten the period of the ban, because if the ban live chicken too long, fear not enough room for farms To accommodate large chicken, the chicken will be too old value plummeted.

Ap Lei Chau Market yesterday  the only business of chicken stalls, with the price of live chicken sales rebound, 50 chickens sold about 30, was not expected because of chicken stalls found to have avian virus to kill a chicken. Wu said stall owners too hands stopped I stopped, if the Maiji stopped on the 21st fear loss of 80,000 yuan, she hoped that the compensation or to consider a rent-free, and has denied selling chicken smuggling.

Fanling three chicken stalls in the market yesterday were not operating. However, the Neighbourhood and that someone had seen near the cart in the markets the sale of dubious origin suspected of smuggling chicken to Shuke.

Reporters yesterday went to Tai Kong Po Tsuen observation, found that about 10 farms, only two are still operating, seen from the slot, at a large number of chickens, the protection of anti-bird nets, net are not damaged.

Hong Kong Poultry Wholesalers and Retailers Association Chairman Huang Weiquan criticism, the industry has yet to explain the issue of compensation to his own spring seeding Street, North Point chicken stalls for example, more than 60,000 rent plus seven staff salaries and utilities , Estimated at 21-day suspension of more than 100,000 yuan loss. Huang Weiquan promoting the slaughter of chickens by 01 compensation package to the poultry stalls of 30,000 to 60,000 yuan ex-gratia payment.

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[Oracle]

Bingo

If affected poultry are defecating live virus..

What in the heck do officials think nets will do to stop SEA GULLS from passing similar live virus in their droppings?? It's like using a net to keep flies away from food.

Sea gulls are ace scavengers in coastal live markets. Local vendors will NOT recognize these birds as potential HPAI sources.

They could be the source of a sudden 'spread' of HPAI among 4 markets within a few days time, although it could be shady poultry distributors who peddle infected birds that die off suddenly (ala S Korea); they move between wholesale markets and clients (mostly restaurants).

[rymich13]

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This is a video from CNN asia discussing this event.

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video...ng.birdflu.cnn

[HenryN]

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Hong Kong scours farms for source of H5N1 virus
12 Jun 2008 05:49:31 GMT
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Hong Kong ordered a cull of 3,500 poultry on Wednesday after discovering the H5N1 virus in four markets scattered across the city's northern and central areas, including in the commerce and retail hub of the main island.
Samples taken from local farms have so far tested negative. But officials found instances of the virus at several wholesale suppliers, which have since had their facilities cleaned and disinfected.
"We are working on finding the origin of this virus but have had no result yet," said Sally Hong, a spokeswoman for the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department.
"We're also monitoring the health of poultry traders and workers to see if they have any symptoms of flu."
Since the H5N1 virus resurfaced in Asia in 2003, it has killed 241 people in a dozen countries, according to the World Health Organisation.
Experts fear the constantly mutating virus could change into a form easily transmitted from person to person. (Reporting by Amrita Sheokand; Editing by Nick Macfie)

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[Sally Furniss]

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Hong Kong Hospitals on H5N1 Alert
Recombinomics Commentary 21:58
June 11, 2008

Hong Kong also found that local poultry retailers chicken feces samples showed positive for the H5N1 avian flu, the Hospital Authority on the 11th night that it would further strengthen in the public hospitals under severe strain-level implementation of infection control measures,

The spokesman said that if required hospitalization, will arrange for them to stay at Princess Margaret Hospital's infectious disease centre HA treated in isolation, the Centre has been ready to receive bird flu cases.

To further enhance rapid testing laboratory support services, public hospitals network of laboratories will, in conjunction with the Department of Health Public Health Laboratory Centre, stand extended. The laboratory network including the Princess Margaret Hospital, Prince of Wales Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Queen Mary Hospital and Tuen Mun Hospital.

The above translation describes hospitals in Hong Kong going on alert due to the detection of H5N1 throughout the city (see satellite map). Although Hong Kong has reported H5N1 in wild birds each year, there have been no H5N1 positive poultry reports in the past five years. The latest outbreak is of concern because the chickens are asymptomatic. It is unclear if the H5N1 shedding by asymptomatic chickens is due to partial immunity due to a poor match between the vaccine and H5N1, adaptive changes by the chickens, or changes by the virus.

However, one of the arguments against H5N1 poultry vaccinations is viral shedding by poultry that appear healthy. The silent spread of H5N1 can quickly lead to a much larger genetic reservoir, creating conditions for more rapid evolution. The asymptomatic infections also increase potential for an expanded geographical reach.

In the past several years, the H5N1 in wild birds in Hong Kong have been Fujian clade 2.3.2 and 2.3.4. Sequences from 2007 and 2008 have been withheld, but the vaccine target for clade 2.3.2 is a wild bird isolate collected in Hong Kong in 2007. The similarity between that isolate and the H5N1 in South Korea, Japan and Primorsky suggests that the H5N1 in Hong Kong is also the Fujian strain, which may be linked to a global expansion of the Fujian strain.

The recent reports of avian influenza in North Korea have increased concerns. Although denied by the government, reports describe birds deaths in proximity to patient with bird flu symptoms, including at least one fatal infection (see satellite map).

Sequence information of the H5N1 in Hong Kong this year and last year, as well as more detail on the avian and human cases in North Korea would be useful.

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/06110804/H5N1_HK_Alert.html

[HenryN]

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This is a video from CNN asia discussing this event.

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video...ng.birdflu.cnn

Hopes and dreams.

[Commonground]

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Dr Chow: the industry concealed the fact the industry to shirk responsibility for anti-H -

[Ming Pao Daily News - The Food and Health Secretary York Chow briefing on retail outlets and diseased chickens dead chickens, and the industry to assist the Government to investigate whether the non-cooperation of avian origin, openly criticized some of the live chicken industry "may have been hiding some of the facts" and hope that the trade Cooperation.

Dr Chow was asked yesterday whether the smuggling of bird flu on chickens, said at the retail level, the chicken stalls in its own licensing requirements, they will notice any diseased chickens dead chickens department for inspection, if these problems occurred The Government will immediately know, we will do a quick test, the chickens will soon know whether there is any virus, particularly the H5 virus.

He added that, if not, the Government is relying on the environment to investigate if the industry to cooperate fully with the problem as early as possible to tell the Government that can eradicate the problem as early as more and more can be back to normal as early as imports of live chickens and so on.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

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May be no "asymptomatic" chickens at all...


Hong Kong poultry traders may have ignored bird flu warning signs - govt


HONG KONG (XFN-ASIA) - Poultry traders in Hong Kong may have failed to promptly alert the authorities to a possible bird flu outbreak, the city's health secretary said, following a mass cull of chickens.

An investigation team was now trying to identify why the H5N1 virus had gone undetected despite spreading to four wet markets across the territory, said York Chow, secretary for health, welfare, and food.

"It is possible that we were not told about these cases, which resulted in a delay to our investigation," he told local broadcaster RTHK.

Live poultry traders are required to immediately report any dead chickens to authorities.

Yesterday, the authorities culled 2,900 chickens in 470 live poultry shops, after identifying the virus in samples taken from four wet markets in the southern Chinese city.

But no infected cases had been found among humans or in local chicken farms, according to the government.

The health chief said they had not found any mutation in the virus and there was no sign that the chickens' immunity system against the flu had changed.

The government is also investigating the conditions of registered farms in mainland China, the major source of chicken for Hong Kong, an agriculture department spokeswoman told Agence France-Presse.

Yuen Kwok-yung, a microbiologist at University of Hong Kong, said it was time for a thorough review of the monitoring system on bird flu cases.

"We are now talking about not only one, but four wet markets with infected chickens. It means that our monitoring system has failed," he told RTHK.

"In recent years, the number of problem chicken reported each day has been shockingly low. We believe there are people who are unwilling to hand over the potentially infected chickens to the authorities," he said.

Hong Kong was the scene of the world's first reported major bird flu outbreak among humans in 1997, when six people died.

The H5N1 strain has killed more than 240 people and ravaged poultry flocks worldwide since 2003, according to the World Health Organization.

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Market experts slaughter of chickens in Hong Kong: 97 after the largest bird threat
Another sample found to have H5N1 bird flu

June 12 - (Associated Press reported Linyi Hong Kong)
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The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department, Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department and the Center for Health Protection yesterday afternoon held a joint conference, announced that following the Sham Shui Po, Kowloon ?On Road Market, Tuen Mun in the New Territories of Charity Street Market and Fanling Market And the Hong Kong Island duck Yin Chau Market, have swab samples tested for the H5N1 avian influenza virus positive, it was decided to slaughter all the markets with immediate effect, such as chickens at the retail level.
The Secretary for Health and Food York Chow last week showed that more markets such as the avian flu virus, the Government will destroy all chickens.

Does not include the slaughtering of poultry farms

Food and Environmental Hygiene Department Deputy Director Liu Yan, yesterday announced that it has begun the implementation of the slaughter, the retail level, including 64 scattered in various public markets in a total of 260 live poultry vendors, and a fresh provision shops selling live a licence 209 poultry, the total number nearly 470. As of last night, the retail market, there are 3,500 live chickens. To 9:00 last night, the department has culled and destroyed 1,500.

AFCD Director of Miss Cheung explained that not all local chickens slaughtered, as in Cheung Sha Wan wholesale market and 50 local chicken farms and found no bird flu virus, but will be encrypted to random testing at least once every fortnight, and will Chicken traders to check the documentation to ensure that no excessive accumulations of chickens. AFCD also announced that due to the virus found again, with immediate effect 21 days will ban live chickens from the Mainland and Hong Kong's live chicken farms out of the market, but will not rule out extending the time limits.

More than 90,000 chickens have been out of the market

The Government said that in last Saturday (7) collected 63 environmental samples, of which four security markets in the sample was positive for bird flu, the same day in various retail outlets in the number of live chickens 100,000, even without New chicken import, at least over the past few days about more than 90,000 chickens have been out of the market.

For last Saturday that the avian flu virus, the Government still allows the sale of chickens in other markets, have ignored the public health of suspicion, Miss Cheung has been evasive reply. University of Hong Kong infection and infectious disease centre director Dr Uu-that the day should be to stop the sale of the Cheung Sha Wan Temporary Wholesale Poultry Market of live chickens.

Market monitoring mechanism completely ineffective

He Uu-liang and noted that this is the Chinese mainland since Hong Kong's return, in the face of bird flu one of the biggest threats, "because in the markets inside a total of four places, unexplained found the H5N1 avian flu virus, the situation is shown in the markets inside The monitoring mechanism null and void and can not stop the avian flu invasion. Therefore, we must take some revolutionary changes to stamp out bird flu and human contact. If the markets inside the public to buy live chickens from the time, it is easy to contact the avian flu, public health And the public's point of view, is totally unacceptable. "

No unusual circumstances of dead chickens

He stressed that this situation is not unusual: "In the past, is the disease found in dead chickens, not in the dead chickens. All the samples are found in chicken manure to the environment, this is very unusual."

He Uu-proposed follow the example of the Macao Government temporarily prevent the avian flu, from live chickens overnight, not to sell chilled chickens should be slaughtered to prevent cross-infection, so even with the stealth of chickens infected with avian flu into the market, temporarily Will not pose a threat to the public, but the ultimate solution is to implement central slaughtering.

He warned that: "The public must understand that the current threat is quite high, we must speed up and implement central slaughtering, if not, that is, let us take so many years in the markets of bird flu preventive measures have been wasted, and there will be at any time Contact with the public because of the stealth bird flu infected chickens while. "

Members: speed tracing the source of infected chickens

Head of the Department of Microbiology, University of Hong Kong, Yuen Kwok-yung said that since 2004, in the markets in Hong Kong has not found the H5N1 avian influenza level, this shows that retail outlets to monitor problems, the Government should review its monitoring procedures.

Legislative Council Panel on Food Safety and Environmental Hygiene Committee Vice-Chairman Fred LI suggested that the Government extended the deadline to prohibit the import of chickens, as well as tracing the source of the infected chickens, so that the public feel at ease. He said: "I urge the Government on the 21st if there达不到要求should extend 21, the markets did not follow the guidelines or to relax, or a large number of smuggled chicken spread to Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Territories around the Markets, if the markets really have retail outlets with these undesirable elements smuggling chickens to sell, it really crack down on live chickens from the retail industry, the industry itself to go to remove these undesirable elements, if not so, really re-open markets selling live Chicken, people have no confidence to buy. "

Customs: not confirmed from the smuggling of chicken

Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department said that in conjunction with the departments concerned have launched a joint investigation, no evidence that H5N1 avian influenza virus spread by the smuggling of chicken, and chicken farms in Hong Kong authorities on the post-mortem test also found no virus, it is most likely the virus from Mainland to Hong Kong chickens spread.

AFCD Assistant Director of Veterinary Xue Han said, the Department has security Road Market bird flu virus samples to the University of Hong Kong for gene sequencing, and found no significant variation.
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Bird-flu detectives focus on vaccines

Mary Ann Benitez

Jun 12, 2008

As Hong Kong wrestles with latest bird-flu outbreak scientists are examining the possibility of an inefficient use of vaccines to immunise poultry against the deadly H5N1 bird flu....

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[Treyfish]

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Graphic: Java Road Market no longer live chickens, dressed in protective clothing for staff cordoned off the area still cleaning up chicken stalls
Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and New Territories number of bird flu, has been suspended imports of live chickens from the Mainland > security, following the Hong Kong chicken markets are found to have H5N1 avian influenza virus, yesterday afternoon, another three markets Found that chicken manure on the H5N1 avian influenza virus positive. This is the second in 1997 after the avian flu the greatest threat to the Hong Kong Government decided to chicken stalls in the territory of live chickens will kill.

Mainland live chicken imports suspended 21 days
Yesterday afternoon, the AFCD, the Health Bureau, the Customs and Excise Department and the department jointly held an emergency press conference to the media and the public notice, following the Sham Shui Po On Road Market has faecal samples of chickens found to have H5N1 avian influenza virus, Tuen Mun and caring Street, Fanling and Ap Lei Chau Market three swab samples have found the H5N1 bird flu virus positive.
The Secretary for Health and Food York Chow said: "There are three markets due to avian influenza virus, we refer to the World Organization for Animal Health guidelines, we decided to start from the 11th time in 21 days, suspended imports of live chickens from the Mainland and At the same time suspend the supply of local poultry farm chickens. "
Dr Chow said that in the meantime, relevant departments will continue to track the source of the avian flu virus, in the end is a local infection or smuggling of chickens into the virus. At the same time, the Government will discuss with the industry how to enhance the retail level vaccination management. He said that if they failed to implement at the retail level of improvement measures, did not rule out extending the period for 21 days.

Health and chicken stalls kill all the frozen chicken
Yesterday, the authorities had carried out the cleaning of the markets ahead of Monday, and yesterday, because of that slaughter of chickens in Hong Kong, Hong Kong markets usher in the second within three days of cleansing.
At about 6:30, about 10 officers in the department of Java Road North Point Market will be access to the chicken stalls in the blockade. Java Road Market has no live chickens, only a few dozen chilled chickens. FEHD officers wearing protective clothing, chilled chickens will be thrown into special bins and disinfection.
Chilled chickens will be dealt with the latter, staff used high-pressure water gun cleaning chicken stalls in cages. Next Monday for cleansing, chicken stalls in Hong Kong will have to kill all live chickens frozen. Since a moratorium on the import of live chickens in Hong Kong only more than 3,000 live chickens, chicken stalls in many purges backward less than chickens, chilled chicken is sold out, the past few days are not business, wash clean cages in Monday after all Never used.
But the department yesterday in the washing cages remained meticulous. Staff said that "in accordance with procedure" is important, not because of washed on Monday, insensitive.

Slaughter of chickens only for retail outlets
Hong Kong Director of AFCD Miss Cheung said at a press conference yesterday, on the 7th preliminary security Road Market has found the samples positive for the avian flu virus, on the 9th before making the markets clean, and not later. They will be asked chicken traders reservations on the 10th Maiji documentation and tracing it to further ensure the safety of the public.
DD Liu Yan said the staff is enclosed all live poultry retail outlets, prepared after the destruction of all live poultry will be slaughtered for disinfection and cleaning of chicken traders of compensation is 30 yuan Mei Zhiji . The slaughter of chickens confined to the retail industry, local farms tested, the results temporarily satisfactory, it did not start slaughter of chickens on the farm.
Veterinary experts, security Road Market samples have been sent to the University of Hong Kong carried out genetic sequencing, has confirmed the bird flu virus samples with the wild birds in Asia and the virus was found in similar, no variation.
Hong Kong on Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and New Territories are many bird flu, people are very worried, and found the first case of the epidemic, only on early Monday but was still clean sale of live chickens expressed dissatisfaction.
Government departments explained that the epidemic monitoring, a set of procedures, when a market that the epidemic will only be turned off, does not affect the rest of the sales market, when two or more markets that the epidemic will be a comprehensive slaughter of chickens.
Dr. Zeng Haohui reminded the public that if the chicken cooked thoroughly before eating a small chance the disease.

Experts said ■
"After 1997, the most serious one"

An interview with the University of Hong Kong and the Center for Infectious Diseases Director Dr. He Boliang, he said that existing evidence has not been able to confirm that the source of bird flu chickens, in addition to the possible smuggling of chicken and other birds also may be brought, or vaccine Failure, but now it is too early to draw a conclusion.

他建议现阶段香港市民不要买鸡食用，因为较难保证无?漏网之鸡?。

He suggested that at this stage of Hong Kong people not to buy chicken for consumption, because the more difficult to ensure that no "Louwang of chicken."
He believes that the Government of the existing security measures are in the Asian region and even the more advanced world, the emergence of the epidemic reflects the lack of implementation and monitoring efforts. He also recommended that the Government Boliang Macao reference to the sale of live chickens: "But the night." Daily live chickens sold in outstanding at the close, the market will be under the supervision of the management staff culled, disinfected and cleaned.
"This is the second in 1997 after the most serious one, the people of Hong Kong face great risks, we must profoundly review." Ho Bo Liang said.

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港府狙击禽流感零售店活鸡不留过夜

Government attacks on the avian flu do not stay overnight retail outlets of live chickens

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>> 疑源头涉及走私鸡

>> Suspect the source involved in smuggling of chicken

通报的确很少。

Sing Tao News Corp., the Food and Health Secretary York Chow said that the industry has not informed earlier that the chickens died, not shirk its responsibility, because recently received notification is indeed very few. He said Hong Kong daily sale of more than 40,000 live chickens, cases can not be totally dead, that the prevention and control of avian influenza, the industry has a responsibility.
In addition, Dr Chow said, it is necessary to strengthen research on bird flu prevention and control capacities, including considering banning live chicken markets in the store overnight.

商讨改善方法。

He was referring, four markets found to have avian influenza virus, indicating the prevention and control capacity to re-evaluate, in his view, the current transportation of chickens, has failed to effectively prevent the spread of bird flu, will discuss with the trade improvement measures. For the industry's request for compensation, Dr Chow said that he has sent people to contact with the industry, awareness of the need.

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Liu Yan said that the measures involved in the licensing conditions and tenancy agreements, but the lease, should be able to inform the stall owners, it will be the immediate implementation of the relevant practices. Liu Yan also said that the current authorities to allow the sale of live chickens in retail outlets will not sell live chickens-frozen, then sell the next day.
And the Hong Kong Poultry Wholesalers and Retailers Association Chairman Huang Weiquan, a day-chicken approach, difficult to accept, because the Hong Kong poultry retail outlets, different costs, the daily liquidators, in the retail industry to the budget.

Members of the Legislative Council Agriculture and Fisheries Wong Yung-kan said that now there are about 200,000 local farms sell live chickens age, and the Government to ban live chicken on the 21st, the sale of live chickens will increase in the number of the relevant age group to about 1 million.

他认为，近期天气阴晴不定，会增加农场鸡只爆发传染病危机。

He believes that the recent confront uncertain weather, which will increase the outbreak of infectious disease crisis in farm chickens. He said that due to the faecal samples found to have H5 avian flu chickens, not from local farms and poultry wholesale market, in his view, the government should ban live chicken on the 21st of the local chicken farmers is not fair.
The Government announced on the 11th, four markets throughout the territory of the swab samples found to have avian flu virus, authorities immediately culled all the markets and fresh provision shops over 3,000 chickens. At the market no longer sell live chickens. In Sha Tin Market, chicken stalls in the vicinity of the stall selling pork that in the past two days, members of the public for fear of bird flu, not approached, a 10% decline in business.
A meat shop, frozen chicken wings business or 10% to 20%. Some members of the public that no live chickens will be chilled chickens to buy that the markets have been cleansed, do not worry. http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?hl...12_794517.html

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Caption: The Shihuanshu personnel yesterday afternoon only then launched kill the Hong Kong downtown live chicken motion. Monday the mountain slow reaction, deceives gives a thought to the residential life and death. (Mai Runtian)
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The Hong Kong and Kowloon New Territory examines H5N1 to kill the chicken to be too late

[Eastern daily paper special news]Food and sanitation bureau chief Monday the mountain cope with the bird flu chicken to repeat an error, last Saturday discovered the security downtown chicken files eruption bird flu, has not had Hong Kong to kill the chicken decisively, misses the guard best good opportunity. Yesterday the lab results confirmed finally last Saturday extracted in the downtown chicken files sample, four brought H5N1 the bird flu virus, but possibly reached 100,000 bird flu chicken already total inflow market condition, swallowed in the residential stomach. The authority thief has sent out troops, yesterday only then announced slaughters the Hong Kong downtown live chicken, but the downtown only remains thousand live chicken radically, kills the chicken motion like facade free time. The infectious disease expert ruthless batch of Monday mountain is ignorant, should reconsider own existence value. Fishing agriculture nature nursing bureau last Saturday announced that the deep water (earth step) a security downtown has five chicken manure sample belt virus, but defends dull by Monday Yue Weishou health official has two downtowns to discover the bird flu, only then kills the Hong Kong downtown live chicken's mechanism. Finally Yuhushu bureau chief Zhang Shao the minister yesterday announced that last Saturday in the Hong Kong retail outlet, the cheung sha wan domesticated fowl wholesale market and the chicken house extracted the over 330 samples, discovered that Fenling united with the ruins, the Tuen Mun benevolence and the Hong Kong native duck (month advantage) the continent three downtown chicken files has the sample to assume the positive reaction to the H5N1 virus test, a security downtown are again many a sample belt virus, the bird flu chicken proliferates the Hong Kong and Kowloon New Territory. Discovered again after four bird flu samples, Zhang Shao the minister will yesterday promulgate the Hong Kong 64 downtown 260 chicken files and the over 200 fresh grain shops, listed as is infected the place, encircled immediately seals the related shop 舖 and killing 舖 in only -odd live chicken. The field estimated that this Monday downtown clean in the future, Hong Kong only remains the approximately 4000 live chickens, 絕 delivers majority of the food, the downtown goods quantity only occupies the small part. Shihuanshu yesterday announced that up to 9:00 pm has slaughtered and destroys 1470 chickens.

on 21st endures the chicken to make the recomputation
Besides kills the Hong Kong downtown live chicken, last Saturday started to forbid inland live chicken import and the local farm output chicken the only 21st measure, lifted heavy objects the new computation prohibition rule time by yesterday. Why did Zhang Shao the minister yesterday suffer the media crazy bang not to have last Saturday kills the Hong Kong downtown live chicken immediately, yesterday did not decide that the farm chicken also massacred continually, she only unceasingly stressed that had the rigorous direction, as for has not had forbids the cheung sha wan domesticated fowl wholesale market live chicken to sell the day before yesterday, she explained that because the wholesale market chemical examination's sample assumed the negative, therefore did not have 夠 the principle according to endure fully sells. She also acknowledged yesterday sold the live chicken indeed has not examined the bird flu, the risk is very low, but since examined four downtown live chickens once to have the bird flu again, was ?prudent? in order to only then Hong Kong kills the chicken. Food environment department of health Vice Superintendent Liu Yanyi acknowledged that only then adopted to yesterday afternoon when killing and encircled closes up a row moves, many chicken files possible to sell all chicken.

?the introspection still has 冇 the existence value?
All the people healthy power President the Lao Yongle ruthless batch of Monday mountain is ignorant and is rash: ?佢 (Monday mountain) says baa does not get free, must engage in introspection oneself to still have 冇 the existence value sincerely!?Lao Yongle believed that Monday the mountain was earlier than last Saturday has been possible Hong Kong to kill the chicken, actually retards on fifth only then to move, forces the Hong Kong resident to suffer to infect the viral death the risk. Lao Yongle appealed that the chicken sold and residential record past one week contact chicken process only, if the body were ill, the related record may become accuses Monday the mountain basis in the future. Hong Kong and Kowloon New Territory Domesticated fowl Wholesale Retail sales Chamber of commerce President Huang Weiquan also angrily rebukes the mountain motion to be Monday slow, the field is deceived miserably, he said: ?Monday Yue Shacuo the chicken, the words cheung sha wan domesticated fowl wholesale market safe, does me to enter the o left 200 chickens first, the early knowledge needs to kill does not enter, not turns over to according to the family initial capital.?Huang Jiangyu protested at least next Monday in the legislature wrong side of the door launch 100 people, request government just compensation. And is examined has bird flu's duck (month advantage) the continent downtown, yesterday only then a chicken files business, Chen Xing the female shopkeeper to killed the chicken to show the disaffection greatly suddenly, she only then bought 50 live chickens the day before yesterday, yesterday only sold thirty, the estimate integration loss 100,000 Yuan. http://svsurl.systransoft.com/?t=out...78a63429--363d