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...problem is that when China's chickens sneeze, Hong Kong poultry gets the flu. All live poultry intended for human consumption in Hong Kong?some 33.4 million birds in 2001?is imported from the mainland, either ready for sale or as chicks to be raised locally. Of the territory's daily chicken consumption, only 20% is reared on 146 local farms; the rest are transported directly from China. Currently the Chinese government keeps no accurate or accessible official records of animal disease outbreaks. October reports of bird flu in Fujian province and the slaughter of 10,000 ducks and chickens...
...Even though all three recent H5N1 chicken strains are related to a goose virus that originated in Guangdong, when Hong Kong inspectors find diseased mainland chickens, they are not allowed to trace the outbreak across the border to its source...
...Mainland officials well know that chicken flu is bad for business. After each H5N1 outbreak, Hong Kong has banned poultry imports from China, if only temporarily. When Macau detected H5N1 in Chinese geese last May, Chinese waterfowl imports were banned for three months. And after avian flu was detected in Chinese duck meat by Seoul authorities in mid-2001, Japan and South Korea imposed a two-month ban. Within days of Hong Kong's latest outbreak, sales of chicken plunged 80%?an estimated loss to retailers of $13 million. "This is supposed to be our peak season," says Wong...
...Chicken dishes, a popular Chinese staple, symbolize prosperity. But in 2002 they are a grim reminder of the downside of one country, two systems...
Implying that Yasser Arafat is chicken can get you slapped - at least if you're one of his subordinates. Tuesday's altercation between the Palestinian leader and his West Bank security chief is the latest sign of a crisis in the Palestinian Authority (PA), as aides press Arafat to make a clear commitment to a political direction, and take the consequences...