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A little good news to start the week.
After a bird flu scare late last week, tests conducted at the remaining live markets in Hong Kong have failed to turn up any additional H5N1 infected chickens.
Authorities are still investigating how poultry at a live market in Hong Kong contracted the virus.
This Deutsche Presse-Agentur story from Monsters and Critics.
Health News
Bird flu fears recede in Hong Kong as markets are given all-clear
Jun 9, 2008, 11:03 GMT
Hong Kong - Fears of a bird flu outbreak in Hong Kong were receding Monday after tests on all markets in the city of 6.9 million failed to find further traces of the H5N1 virus.
The former British colony went on bird flu alert Saturday after swabs taken at a market in the Shamshuipo district found traces of the virus that led to a deadly outbreak in Hong Kong 11 years ago.
The market was closed down, chickens from mainland China were banned and tests were ordered on all poultry markets in the city, a move which saw the sales of chickens plunge 30 per cent Sunday.
However, the government announced Monday that no traces of the virus had been found at any other market in the city or in farms in Hong Kong or in southern China.
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