A chicken illegally smuggled across the border from mainland China has died here of bird flu, Hong Kong officials announced late today in a case that raises new questions about whether Chinese provincial officials are concealing the true extent of the disease.
A villager living half a kilometer from the Chinese border obtained the chicken last Thursday from a mainland relative in neighboring Guangdong province, which denies having the disease. The chicken fell sick and died on Tuesday, said Dr. Thomas Sit, Hong Kong’s acting assistant director of agriculture, fisheries and conservation, adding that preliminary tests quickly confirmed that the chicken had the A(H5N1) avian influenza virus.
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