According to a press release from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, the Centre for Food Safety of the Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced today that in response to the World Organization for Animal Health's notification that highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has broken out in Edmunds County, South Dakota, and Wayne County, North Carolina, the Centre immediately instructed the industry to suspend imports of poultry meat and poultry products from these regions to protect public health in Hong Kong.

Zhitongcaijing · 1d ago
According to a press release from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, the Centre for Food Safety of the Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced today that in response to the World Organization for Animal Health's notification that highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has broken out in Edmunds County, South Dakota, and Wayne County, North Carolina, the Centre immediately instructed the industry to suspend imports of poultry meat and poultry products from these regions to protect public health in Hong Kong.