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Those measures may no longer be enough. This week's outbreak is particularly alarming because some of the chickens killed by the virus appear to have been vaccinated against it, according to the government. Lo Wing-lok, president of the Hong Kong Medical Association and an expert on infectious disease, says that Hong Kong uses an older version of the H5 vaccine than mainland China, where there are more frequent outbreaks and farmers vaccinate poultry specifically against the H5N1 strain of the virus. (See pictures of Hong Kong from...
While the older, umbrella vaccine has proven effective in the past, Dr. Lo says it may be losing its potency as newer strains of the virus spread around the region. A new study by University of Hong Kong microbiologists of a virus outbreak earlier this year found that chickens that had been vaccinated against the H5 virus had only one-quarter as many antibodies as those vaccinated in 2001. Yuen Kwok-yung, head of the University's microbiology department and an expert on avian flu, warned recently that the vaccine may be approaching total failure...
...Lo! The holidays approacheth! Twinkly colored lights festoon all things. The tintinnabulation of bells peal from street corners. And the bright promise of redemption through consumption beckons from every department store in the land...
...tradition, the Fed Challenge Team has been very independent and very student-run,” Lo said...
...Northwestern won the first three, so they had literally an empire, and we took that away when we won last year,” Lo said. “I think they were really hoping to get back their crown...