Bird flu alert in Hong Kong

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The authorities are once again slapping quarantine orders on poultry farms and have started the slaughter of tens of thousands of chickens.

Hong Kong is on birds flu alert, 80,000 chickens are being cold and no poultry will be allowed in or out of the island for three weeks. Tests have been done on dead chickens from farms in the northeastern UN long district, the health secretary says it appears they die from the H5 strain of the birds flu.

As Hong Kong is now affected by the birds flu, we will ban all the affected chickens from our farms for 21 days and also suspend all the imports of chicken and poultry, including birds for the next 21 days. I can tell you that there will no live chickens supply for the upcoming winder festival.

For now health officials can't rule out the possibility-the virus might be the more deadly H5N1, that strain remains mainly in animals' disease, but has infected the people before, Hong Kong has suffered two serious / birds flu. 6 people died in an outbreak H5N1 in 1997, the other happened in 2001.

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官方再次命令对养鸡场进行隔离并且开始对数万只活鸡进行屠宰。

香港又一次处于禽流感戒备状态，80，000只鸡受到冷落，三周之内任何禽类不允许进出香港岛。相关部门已经对来自英国东北部农场的死鸡进行检测。卫生部秘书说，这些鸡好像死于H5型禽流感病毒。

由于香港现在收到禽流感感染，我们必须在未来的21天内对农场受到感染的活鸡进行限制，并且21天内暂停所有鸡禽类的进口，包括鸟类。我可以告诉你，在即将召开的香港玩具展上也不会有鸡肉供应。

现在，卫生部官员不能排除这种可能性——该病毒可能是更致命的H5N1，这种病毒主要导致动物的疾病，但是以前也有人类感染该病毒。香港之前已经经历了两次严重的禽流感。1997年H5N1病毒爆发导致6人死亡，另一次发生在2001年。