Hong Kong began culling 20,000 chickens and suspended imports of fresh poultry from mainland China for 21 days on Tuesday after the discovery of the H7N9 bird flu virus in a batch of live chicken from the southern province of Guangdong.
Six H7N9 avian influenza patients, who have made full recovery, pose with their doctors before being discharged from a hospital in Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang province, April 27, 2013.
A patient (right) who recovered from the H7N9 bird flu was discharged from the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center on April 21, 2013. Three patients recovered and were discharged from the medical center on the same day.
Roast Peking duck restaurants have seen a sharp drop in business for the bird flu scare.
A seven-year-old girl in Beijing who was infected with H7N9 bird flu, the first such case in the Chinese capital, was discharged from hospital Wednesday afternoon, local health authorities announced.
Ye, like many other chicken farmers in the province, where 21 H7N9 human infections were reported, including two deaths, are concerned about his chicken sales dropping due to public fears about avian flu infection.[
The price of live chicken was pulled down a lot by its declining demand due to fear of H7N9 avian flu virus infections, alluring many local residents to the market to buy more than 10 chickens at a time
The order, which took effect on April 15, also requires the temporary closure of all living poultry trade areas in farm produce, flowers and birds market and two poultry trade markets in the city.
The total number of confirmed human infections of the H7N9 bird flu in China has risen to 55, as four new cases were reported in Zhejiang rovince on Sunday.
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Two more cases of H7N9 bird flu infections were reported on Wednesday in Shanghai, bringing the total number of infected people in the country to 33, health authorities said.
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