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By , on April 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The city should stop importing live poultry from the mainland to cut the risk of the deadly H7N9 bird flu entering Hong Kong, said the government’s former top vet who is a specialist in epidemics. Howard Wong Kai-hay, who was principle veterinary officer at the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department until late last year, warned the inspection process was not thorough enough and food safety was at risk. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BEIJING — On a subway car in Shanghai, commotion breaks out when someone spots a live chicken poking its head out of a bag tucked under one of the seats. On a highway in Zhejiang province, a motorist is so panicked by bird droppings landing on her windshield that she stops the car and calls traffic police for help. On the Internet, photos of dead sparrows on a Nanjing sidewalk are ordered removed by police who fear they might go viral. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The death toll from a new strain of bird flu in China has reached 18, with dozens infected, state-run media reported, after experts said there is no evidence so far of human-to-human transmission. A 69-year-old man surnamed Xu is the most recent person to die from the H7N9 virus, China’s official news-agency Xinhua said on its website on Saturday. He died on Friday in eastern province of Zhejiang, the agency said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BEIJING (AP) — Almost three weeks after China reported finding a new strain of bird flu in humans, experts are still stumped by how people are becoming infected when many appear to have had no recent contact with live fowl and the virus isn’t supposed to pass from person to person. The uncertainty adds to challenges the Chinese government is facing in trying to control the spread of the H7N9 bird flu virus that has already killed 17 people and infected 70 others in the country, mostly along the eastern seaboard. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Long-term and unprotected exposure to the infected person might result in another human infection, said Feng Zijian, director of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) health emergency centre. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The World Health Organisation said on Wednesday that a number of people who have tested positive for a new strain of bird flu in China have had no history of contact with poultry, adding to the mystery about the virus that has killed 16 people to date. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A seven-year-old girl who contracted the H7N9 strain of bird flu left hospital on Wednesday and appeared before media in an apparent bid by health authorities to cool concerns about the deadly virus. The daughter of poultry traders was Beijing’s first confirmed human case of the virus, which has killed 16 people and infected scores of people hundreds of kilometres away in eastern China over the past few weeks. Wearing a bright blue coat and pink backpack, she said she was feeling “much better”, at a press conference held by hospital authorities. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China reported eight new human cases of H7N9 bird flu on Tuesday, all of them in critical condition, bringing the total number across the country to 71, state media said. The new cases occurred in eastern China, the focal point for the outbreak which has claimed 14 lives in the two weeks since Chinese authorities said they found the strain in humans for the first time. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Authorities have slaughtered thousands of birds and closed live poultry markets in Shanghai and Beijing in an attempt to reduce the rate of human infection and allay growing fears about the H7N9 virus. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An international team of flu experts will go to China within a week to help with investigations into the deadly H7N9 virus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday. The new strain of avian flu has killed 14 among 63 people known to have been infected, but no human-to-human spread of the virus has been confirmed. China confirmed on Saturday a seven-year-old child had been infected by the virus in the capital Beijing, the first case outside the Yangtze river delta region in eastern China where the new strain emerged last month. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Photos of 10 dead sparrows on a Chinese pavement that went viral on social media and drew a swift official response show how hard covering up a bird flu outbreak would be in the internet age. China has won international praise for its transparency on the H7N9 strain, which has killed 14 people so far, in sharp contrast to criticism for trying to conceal the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) epidemic. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Hannah Shaw-Williams, on April 15th, 2013 
Lionsgate is distributing two very different movies over the next few months. First of all, there’s family-themed romantic comedy The Big Wedding, in which Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton play a divorced couple who are forced to fake being married again – so as not to offend their future daughter-in-law’s strict Catholic mother. Then there’s home invasion horror You’re Next, directed by A Horrible Way to Die‘s Adam Wingard, in which a family get-together turns into a bloodbath as a group of people attempt to defend themselves from masked killers with an unexplained grudge against them. It appears that Lionsgate has decided to kill two birds with one stone, literally doubling up their posters for The Big Wedding and You’re Next to create a creepy and rather cool viral campaign. We’re not yet sure how many …Click to continue reading Viral Marketing for ‘You’re Next’ Invades ‘The Big Wedding’ Posters
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By , on April 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A new case of bird flu in China’s capital, a 4-year-old boy who displayed no symptoms, is adding to the unknowns about the latest outbreak that has caused 63 confirmed cases and 14 deaths, health officials said Monday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s poultry industry lost 10 billion yuan (US$1.6 billion) in the week after the H7N9 bird flu virus began infecting humans, state-run media said on Monday as they sought to discourage panic. Altogether 60 people have been confirmed as infected and 13 have died in the two weeks since Chinese authorities said they found the strain in humans for the first time. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> More than 2,000 global political figures, celebrities and even a couple of Margaret Thatcher’s old foes have been invited to her funeral in London on Wednesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> North Korea dismissed on Sunday the South’s offer for dialogue on the future of the Kaesong joint industrial zone, calling the offer an “empty” political gesture. The North announced the withdrawal of its 53,000 workers and the suspension of operations at Kaesong at the beginning of the week, as military tensions on the Korean peninsula soared. Seoul on Thursday called for Pyongyang to “come to the dialogue table” to revive the complex, a rare symbol of cross-border economic co-operation and crucial hard currency source for the North. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> One month after Hugo Chavez died, his leftist legacy goes on the line after a swift but bitter race between Maduro, the acting president who casts himself as the late leader’s “son,” and opposition leader Henrique Capriles. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called for joint efforts with the United States to safeguard cyberspace, an area of tension that the US says is its top national security concern. Repeating the government’s oft-stated position, China opposes any form of hacking, Wang was quoted by Xinhua news agency as telling visiting US Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Japan on Sunday, the last stop on an Asian tour aimed at solidifying support for curbing North Korea’s nuclear programme and reassuring US allies after weeks of threats of war from Pyongyang. The North has threatened for weeks to attack the United States and South Korea since new UN sanctions were imposed in response to its latest nuclear arms test in February. Speculation has mounted of a new missile launch or nuclear test. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The new “digital public library” set to launch this month aims to provide an alternative to Google for those looking for American cultural information online. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Stop mainland China chicken imports, says expert
<!– google_ad_section_start –> The city should stop importing live poultry from the mainland to cut the risk of the deadly H7N9 bird flu entering Hong Kong, said the government’s former top vet who is a specialist in epidemics. Howard Wong Kai-hay, who was principle veterinary officer at the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department until late last year, warned the inspection process was not thorough enough and food safety was at risk. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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