Earlier this month doctors in Beijing warned that the country’s bird flu crisis is fast becoming pandemic,
Forbes reported. In Hong Kong, news reports of chickens being led to slaughter or tossed dead into plastic bags have hit the airwaves once more. Some 20,000 birds were culled in Hong Kong on account of a new strain of avian flu, H10N8.
China is no stranger to food diseases. From tainted milk to dead pigs floating in rivers, China’s chicken hungry population is getting sick, literally, from lackluster food safety. And now, the new H10N8 virus has jumped to humans.
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Source: Forbes.com
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