Dr Tony Ko, who will retire at the end of July, steered organisation through anti-government protests and Covid-19 pandemic ...

(The first identified outbreak was in Hong Kong.) Then came the 2009 pandemic, a true “globalized pandemic,” Perez says. In the early 2000s there had been a few sporadic human infections in the U.S.

The H5N1 bird flu virus has historically extracted a heavy toll when it infects humans, with nearly half of confirmed cases ...

Official urges members of the public to get vaccinated as surveillance data shows Hong Kong has entered the flu season Health authorities have piled pressure on more than 160 schools by publicly ...

In 1957, the Asian flu was an H2, and the Hong Kong flu in 1968 was a H3.There had been small appearances of the H1-type of avian viruses in other years, but nothing like the H5 now rampaging ...

On Dec. 22, Xinhua, China’s state-run news service, did mention the infected birds found in Hong Kong but noted that “no reports of a bird-flu outbreak have been filed on the mainland so far.” ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A house crow found dead in a crowded district in Hong Kong last week has tested positive for the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus, a government spokeswoman said on Monday.

2020 has been a rough year. 1968 was worse. Granted, as of late April, we are only a third of the way into this tumultuous and frustrating new decade. Unless ...