Hong Kong culls 20,000 birds in H7N9 scare

[Still Waters]

A cull of 20,000 chickens was under way in Hong Kong Tuesday after the deadly H7N9 bird flu virus was found in poultry imported from mainland China, days before Lunar New Year.

Fears over avian flu have grown following the deaths of two men from the H7N9 strain in Hong Kong since December. Both had recently returned from mainland China.

http://uk.news.yahoo...33.html#FTu47oR

[SHaYap]

and just in time for the profiteering pirates to make a market killing for the Lunar New Year expenses ... how convenient