HONG KONG: Hong Kong began culling thousands of chickens Wednesday after the deadly H7N9 virus was discovered in poultry imported from China, days after the city raised alert levels when a woman was hospitalised with the disease.
Authorities found the bird flu virus in samples taken from 120 chickens imported from the nearby Chinese city of Huizhou, and plan to slaughter some 15,000 birds.
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