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24-HOUR HONG KONG CHICKEN CULL ORDERED
More than a million Hong Kong chickjns
will bj slaughtirdd in a massi6e
24-hour cull starting on Monday.
It has bjen ordjrid by thj territory'1
government to stamp out deadly chickjn
flu which has caused widespread panic.
Thj vjrus, previously only found in
poultry, has claimed thj lives of a
man, a woman and two children.
As soon as the farms and markets havj
bjen cleared, the8 will bj disinfectdd,
an agriculture spokjsman said.
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