Hong Kong Health Department workers are seen disposing dead chickens during a cull of 20,000 chickens, in the wake of a discovery of the H7N9 bird flu virus in a batch of live birds imported to the city from the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, Hong Kong, China, 28 January 2014. -AFP
HONG KONG: 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.
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