There have been reports that Shenzhen farms have been shipping live poultry to other parts of Guangdong province after Hong Kong’s ban and knowledge that Health authorities will be closing down all the wet markets in the border city’s Longgang district.
The poultry markets will be closed for seven days for disinfection and since the first case of H7N9 was diagnosed, imports from Shenzhen has been banned.
Don’t the farmers know that the potentially-deadly H7N9 virus was found, and by evading the ban by shipping live poultry to other parts of China, won’t do any good but continue to spread the virus?
Hong Kong has stopped poultry imports from Shenzhen since the first case of H7N9 detected to have come from the district on Dec. 2 however, yesterday the Secretary for Food and Health, Ko Wing-man insisted that a blanket ban was not necessary.
Today, Ko said that if Shenzhen farms have been evading the ban, action will be taken.
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