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 The 75-year-old male patient, who had visited the southern Chinese
town of Changping in Dongguan city this month before returning to
Hong Kong, is in serious condition, the government said in a
statement released late on Monday.
The case came to light as South Korea and Japan ordered further
culls on Monday to contain outbreaks of a different strain of bird
flu, having already killed tens of millions of birds in the past
month.
Hong Kong has been battling sporadic cases of avian influenza in
humans since the first outbreak killed six people in the Asian
financial hub in 1997.
Macau, a former Portuguese colony an hour away from Hong Kong by
ferry, culled about 10,000 chickens last week after a wholesale
poultry market worker fell ill with the H7N9 strain.
The city temporarily suspended importing poultry from mainland China
but resumed trade on Sunday.
(Reporting by Venus Wu; Editing by Paul Tait)
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