{"id":66347,"date":"2014-01-29T00:50:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T20:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=66347"},"modified":"2014-01-29T00:50:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T20:50:19","slug":"hong-kong-culls-20000-chickens-carrying-bird-flu-amid-fears-ahead-of-chinese-new-year-feasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=66347","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong culls 20,000 chickens carrying bird flu amid fears ahead of Chinese New Year feasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hong-Kong-chickens3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-66346\" alt=\"\u0540\u0578\u0576\u0563-\u056f\u0578\u0576\u0563,\u0569\u057c\u0579\u0576\u0561\u0563\u0580\u056b\u057a\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hong-Kong-chickens3.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hong-Kong-chickens3.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hong-Kong-chickens3-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hong-Kong-chickens3-431x300.jpg 431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong has culled 20,000 chickens and closed a major poultry market after the bird flu virus was discovered.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have banned local farms from selling to the Cheung Sha Wan poultry market just two days before Chinese New Year, when traders usually see a big boost in sales.<\/p>\n<p>The city has also blocked imports of fresh chicken from mainland China for 21 days after the H7N9 virus was discovered in a shipment from the southern province of Guangdong.<\/p>\n<p>The market will also remain closed for 21 days until February 18 for cleaning and disinfection.<\/p>\n<p>The H7N9 virus passes easily between birds and could develop the ability to spread from human-to-human, causing a global pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Staff members of Hong Kong Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department have carried out the cull today, gassing the chickens with carbon dioxide.<\/p>\n<p>Two people infected with H7N9 bird flu have died in Hong Kong and a third patient is being treated. All three were infected during visits to the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hong Kong has culled 20,000 chickens and closed a major poultry market after the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":66346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[537,467,1609,5204],"class_list":["post-66347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-bird-flu","tag-chinese","tag-hong-kong","tag-new-year","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}