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"The rapid testing showed... that this batch of chickens carries the H7N9 virus," the city's health minister Ko Wing-man said Wednesday. Televised images showed authorities beginning
the cull Wednesday morning, with health officials in white hazmat suits dumping chickens into green plastic bins.
The bins were then pumped with carbon dioxide to kill the birds, a spokeswoman for the city's agriculture department told AFP. The carcasses were sent to landfills for disposal after the operation was completed at around 5:30 pm. Poultry imports from the mainland have been banned for three weeks....
A food market in Hong Kong, shot by Greg Willis Greg Willis, Wikimedia Commons via Flickr, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license
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