Hong Kong authorities have slaughtered thousands of chickens and quarantined
farms to try to stamp out the third outbreak of avian flu in five years. As
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warns Ken Shortridge of Hong Kong University. Infectious-disease experts are
concerned that Hong Kong鈥檚 live fowl markets could provide the cauldron the
virus needs to transmogrify into forms that can trigger pandemics.
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