Hong Kong’s health authorities have announced that the city’s winter flu season has ended but warned of the probability of a summer peak later this year. Dr Edwin Tsui Lok-kin, controller of ...

Hong Kong’s Centre for Food Safety (CFS) has suspended the import of poultry meat and products, including eggs, from ...

She left without saying a word, simply lying peacefully in bed. Just a few days ago, she even proactively went to get a flu shot,’ CY Leung says.

HONG KONG: Hong Kong largely escaped the 11-week winter flu season, with far fewer critical cases thanks to increased vaccination efforts, the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) announced on ...

Avian influenza infections in the US have been rising over the past year, but there’s no evidence so far that people can infect each other with this strain of the virus.

The new nasal vaccine only needs one dose and produces reliable immunity right at the site where the virus enters the body.

H5N1 flu has version 5 of the H protein and version 1 of the N ... it was hardly cause for worldwide alarm. But a year later, in Hong Kong, a 3-year-old boy died after suffering high fever and ...

The flu sickens millions of people in the U.S ... Human cases, first reported in 1997 in Hong Kong, have primarily occurred in poultry farm workers or others who have interacted closely with ...

Expert says the disease is still rare in Hong Kong but travellers heading overseas should consider vaccination Hong Kong has ...

The H5N1 avian influenza virus, first detected in humans in Hong Kong in 1997 ... further adaptation or recombination with seasonal flu could significantly increase the risk of a pandemic.