Hong Kong culled thousands of chickens Wednesday after the potentially deadly H7N9 bird flu virus was discovered in poultry imported from China, days after a woman was admitted to hospital with the disease. Authorities found the virus in samples taken from 120 chickens imported from the nearby Chinese city of Huizhou and slaughtered nearly 19,000 birds, including 11,800 chickens. A 68-year-old woman was admitted to hospital with the virus on December 25 after returning to Hong Kong from the neighbouring southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, although it has not been confirmed how she contracted the disease. In response to the new case -- the city's first since early 2014 -- Hong Kong announced it was raising its response level in hospitals to "serious" from "alert", with extra precautions implemented from Sunday.
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