CNN - Latest Hong Kong 'bird flu' victim critical - Jan. 3, 1998
Influenza (say: in-floo-en-zah) is also called the flu. It's an infection that causes fever, chills, cough, body aches, headaches, and sometimes earaches or sinus problems. The flu is caused by the influenza virus (say: vy-rus). A virus is a microorganism (say: my-croh-or-gah-nih-zum), which means it's so small that you can't see it without a strong microscope.
CNN - Latest Hong Kong 'bird flu' victim critical - Jan. 3, 1998
... to catch the so-called "bird flu" in Hong Kong, bringing the total number of ... Hong Kong officials also said that once the ban is lifted, newly imported birds ...
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Bird tested positive for H5N1 strain of bird flu in Hong Kong - International Herald Tribune
Hong Kong aggressively tests for bird flu following a 1997 outbreak when the ... slaughter Hong Kong's entire known poultry population of about 1.5 million birds. ...
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Bird flu silences once bustling Hong Kong songbird market - Boston.com
In its heyday, Hong Kong's famous Bird Garden market bustled with shoppers bargaining in Cantonese for exotic birds for sale as pets or for Buddhist rituals.
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Three in Hong Kong hospital amid bird flu fears
Three in Hong Kong hospital amid bird flu fears. Mark McCord ... illegal for poultry or pet birds to be brought into Hong Kong without a licence. ...
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CNN.com - Importers profit from Hong Kong bird flu - May 21, 2001
An outbreak of bird flu in Hong Kong has spelt disaster for local shops, but is proving a golden ... slaughtering of their birds and loss of business. ...
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washingtonpost.com: Hong Kong 'Bird Flu'
... masks and protective gowns have Hong Kong's ``bird flu'' under the microscope. ... Historically, that's why new flu strains often originate in birds. ...
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Hong Kong cracks down on bird flu, closes market
... combat bird flu, including a crackdown on the smuggling of birds into Hong Kong. ... Hong Kong aggressively tests for bird flu after an outbreak in 1997 jumped to ...
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Dead Falcon in Hong Kong Found to Be Infected With Bird Flu
Hong Kong has had a half dozen outbreaks of flu in local birds since 1997, when ... Cases of New Bird Flu in Hong Kong Prompt Worldwide Alerts (February 22, 2003) ...
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Wild bird carcass tests positive for deadly avian flu strain in Hong Kong - International Herald Tribune
... bird carcass tests positive for deadly avian flu strain in Hong ... Hong Kong tested 11,000 birds for the H5 strain of bird flu in 2006 and 17 were positive. ...
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Hong Kong Chicken Flu
Thankfully it looks the deadly Hong Kong bird flu that has taken four lives is ... These birds to be slaughtered will come from one thousand different markets and ...
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CNN - Latest Hong Kong 'bird flu' victim critical - Jan. 3, 1998
The Spanish flu pandemic was truly global, spreading even to the Arctic and remote Pacific islands. The unusually severe disease killed between 2 and 20% of those infected, as opposed to the more usual flu epidemic mortality rate of 0.1%. Another unusual feature of this pandemic was that it mostly killed young adults, with 99% of pandemic influenza deaths occurring in people under 65, and more than half in young adults 20 to 40 years old. This is unusual since influenza is normally most deadly to the very young (under age 2) and the very old (over age 70). The total mortality of the 1918–1919 pandemic is not known, but it is estimated that 2.5% to 5% of the world's population was killed. As many as 25 million may have been killed in the first 25 weeks; in contrast, HIV/AIDS has killed 25 million in its first 25 years.
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