Hong Kong health officials are reaching out to city ... The Centre for Health Protection warned on Tuesday that the dominating flu virus strain might change for a second time given the higher ...

A total of 774 people died from it, including 299 in Hong Kong. “The cases of infection in Wuhan have a close resemblance to the epidemic of bird flu virus in 1997 and SARS in 2003,” Hong ...

Hong Kong’s higher vaccination rates against Covid-19 and flu can help the city’s healthcare workers stave off a hospital crisis similar to the fifth coronavirus wave two years ago ...

Hong Kong scientists are reporting the case of a healthy man in his 30s who became reinfected with coronavirus four and a half months after his first bout. They say genome sequencing shows the two ...

TWO people in Europe have been hospitalised with what experts fear is ‘Disease X’ after flying from the Democratic Republic ...

H3N2 influenza, also known as the “Hong Kong flu,” is a subtype of the Influenza A virus that can cause respiratory illness in humans. It spreads easily and has led to a surge in influenza ...

The move comes after an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu in the state. The center said that Hong Kong imported about ... reported an outbreak of the virus in the eastern Sabah region.

In 1997, 18 cases of avian influenza A H5N1 infection occurred in humans in Hong Kong. It soon became evident that the avian influenza virus H5N1 could cross the species barrier and infect humans.

HONG KONG--Hong Kong’s government says its population has shrunk for a second year as anti-virus controls hampered the inflow of new workers and births declined, but it made no mention of an ...