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Hong Kong, China's Guangdong Agree to Cooperate on Bird Flu

Posted on: Friday, 4 November 2005, 09:00 CST

Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)

Guangzhou, 4 November: The health departments of China's Guangdong Province and Hong Kong agreed Thursday [3 November] to take more efforts in dealing with dire sanitary events in the backdrop of bird flu concerns.

Officials from both sides reached agreements at a working conference to reinforce cooperation in monitoring and reporting the outbreak of public health events including flu, bird flu and some other new diseases, according to the Guangdong Provincial Health Department.

They called for improving the emergency alarming system and the establishment of a risk appraisal team comprising experts from both sides.

The officials also stressed the importance of relative information, technology and personnel exchanges.

The two adjacent regions in southern China pledged to strengthen communication and cooperation in coping with dire public health events and set up a joint-action mechanism to improve their emergency-control capacity.

Facing the latest outbreak of avian flu in some regions in the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong has taken emergency measures, including poultry vaccination and suspending poultry imports, to prevent a human outbreak.

Source: BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific

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