Bird flu detected in Hong Kong market

June 7th, 2008 in Medicine & Health / Diseases
Bird flu detected in Hong Kong market (AP)

Workers slaughter live poultry at a market in Hong Kong, Saturday, June 7, 2008. Hong Kong health officials are destroying 2,700 live poultry in the marketplace Saturday after chickens there were found to be carrying the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus strain, officials said. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

(AP) -- Hong Kong health workers slaughtered 2,700 poultry in a market Saturday after chickens were found to be carrying the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus, officials said.

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