Scientists always knew a deadly virus was going to jump from animals to humans: COVID was not the first time it has happened, ...

HONG KONG — This city, where avian influenza was first discovered in 1997 when it killed 18 people, knows the risks of bird flu perhaps better than any other city in the world. Today, Hong Kong ...

Bird Flu Causes Chills in Hong Kong. Proximity to China, Suspected as Virus's Source, Highlights City's Quandry. May 26, 2001. By Clay Chandler. HONG KONG -- This former British colony has spent a ...

Influenza viruses are shifty entities. A seemingly ingenious and sneaky way for viruses to make these leaps is by swapping ...

Influenza viruses like bird flu can mix and match their genomes, and this has played a role in at least three of the last ...

A woman is critically ill in Hong Kong with the lethal H7N9 strain of bird flu, the first confirmed case in the city this winter, Hong Kong government officials said. The city's influenza pandemic ...

HONG KONG — It was particularly bad timing for the discovery of a bird-flu-infected chicken. But Hong Kong knows the drill. After a dead bird tested positive for avian influenza on Tuesday ...

HONG KONG, May 19 -- Health officials packed live chickens, quail and pigeons into trash cans and gassed them today, part of a plan to eradicate Hong Kong's avian flu outbreak by slaughtering 1.2 ...

Hong Kong officials are reporting that a second patient has died after contracting the H7N9 bird flu virus, according to the South China Morning Post. The 65-year-old male is believed to have been ...

Hong Kong’s last recorded case of bird flu in humans was in 2003. The region experienced the world’s first major outbreak among humans in 1997, when six people died, and the government ...

Hong Kong culled 4,500 birds on Tuesday after the deadly H7N9 bird flu virus was discovered in a chicken at a local market.

Hong Kong and the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Wednesday each confirmed a new case of H7N9 bird flu, reports the South China Morning ...