CNN.com - Europe, Asia in bird flu clampdown - Oct 21, 2005

CNN.com - Europe, Asia in bird flu clampdown - Oct 21, 2005: "'If it is proven to be human-to-human transmission, then we have to be very careful and we might have to close the border' with the mainland, Hong Kong Secretary for Health York Chow was reported as saying.
Hong Kong has been a hotbed of health alerts in recent years, including the outbreak of the SARS disease in 2003, which killed almost 300 people there.
The H5N1 bird flu strain also infected 18 people in Hong in 1997, six of whom died.
Consequently, Hong Kong's entire poultry population, estimated at around 1.5 million birds, was destroyed within three days. This is thought "