Hong Kong reports bird flu outbreak (International Herald Tribune) Three dead chickens tested positive for bird flu in Hong Kong, prompting the city to suspend poultry imports for 21 days and begin slaughtering 80,000 birds, an official said Tuesday. [News Source]

Bird flu prompts mass culling (News 24 South Africa) Hong Kong authorities have raised the city's avian flu alert to "serious" after some chickens at a farm were confirmed to have the H5 bird flu virus. [News Source]

New bird flu outbreak in Hong Kong (Deutsche Welle) Officials in Hong Kong say three dead chickens have tested positive for bird flu, prompting the city to suspend poultry imports and begin slaughtering fowl at the infected farm. [News Source]

Hong Kong reports bird flu outbreak (AP via Yahoo! News) Three dead chickens tested positive for bird flu in Hong Kong, prompting the city to suspend poultry imports for 21 days and begin slaughtering 80,000 birds, an official said Tuesday. [News Source]

Hong Kong Detects Avian Flu, Bans Live Birds Imports (Update1) (Bloomberg) Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong will ban imports of live poultry after chickens from a local farm were found to have died from the H5 bird-flu virus. The government will destroy 80,000 birds from the farm and the adjacent area to combat the bird flu, York Chow , Secretary for Food and Health, said today at a briefing in the city broadcast on local television. [News Source]

Bird flu found in Hong Kong chicken farm (Channel NewsAsia) HONG KONG: More than 80,000 chickens will be culled in Hong Kong after bird flu was found in a poultry farm, the first outbreak in a farm here in nearly six years, health authorities said Tuesday. [News Source]

Hong Kong reports bird flu outbreak (San Francisco Chronicle) Three dead chickens tested positive for bird flu in Hong Kong, prompting the city to suspend poultry imports for 21 days and begin slaughtering 80,000 birds, an official said Tuesday. "We feel that Hong Kong is facing a new alert for bird flu," said York... [News Source]

Hong Kong bird flu outbreak (The Courier Mail) THREE dead chickens tested positive for bird flu in Hong Kong, prompting the city to suspend poultry imports for 21 days and slaughter 80,000 birds. [News Source]

80,000 chickens to be slaughtered in bird flu find (The West Australian) More than 80,000 chickens will be slaughtered in Hong Kong after bird flu was found in a poultry farm, the first outbreak at a farm here in nearly six years, health authorities said on Tuesday. “We h [News Source]