HONG KONG (Reuters) - The deadly H5N1 bird flu virus is probably endemic in the region around Hong Kong, the territory's health chief said on Friday, after tests this week on a dead chicken were positive for the disease.
The bird had been brought into Hong Kong from mainland China and, while it proved impossible to determine where it contracted the virus, the case raised the spectre of an outbreak over the border in Guangdong, China's wealthiest province.
