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The influenza viruses that caused the Hong Kong flu (magnified approximately 100,000 times) The Hong Kong flu was the first known outbreak of the H3N2 strain, but there is serologic evidence of H3N1 infections in the late 19th century. The virus was isolated in Queen Mary Hospital. [101]
The 1957–1958 Asian flu pandemic was a global pandemic of influenza A virus subtype H2N2 that originated in Guizhou in Southern China. [ 3][ 4][ 1] The number of excess deaths caused by the pandemic is estimated to be 1–4 million around the world (1957–1958 and probably beyond), making it one of the deadliest pandemics in history. [ 1][ 2 ...
Oriental Daily News is a Chinese-language newspaper in Hong Kong. It was established in 1969 by Ma Sik-yu and Ma Sik-chun, and was one of the two newspapers published by the Oriental Press Group Limited ( Chinese: 東方報業集團有限公司 ). Relative to other Hong Kong newspapers, Oriental Daily News has an older readership. [citation needed]
We’re not just living through an earthshaking pandemic.We’re living through a new crisis in which a highly virulent virus arrives at the very moment when ubiquitous media coverage, global ...
Headquarters. Kowloon Bay. City. Hong Kong. Circulation. 10-30,000. Sister newspapers. Oriental Daily News (in Chinese) The Eastern Express ( Chinese: 東快訊) was an English-language newspaper published in Hong Kong between February 1994 and June 1996 by the Oriental Press Group, which also run the Chinese-language Oriental Daily News.
Oriental Press Group Limited is the publishing company of Hong Kong newspaper Oriental Daily News, as well as now defunct The Sun and Eastern Express. Oriental Press Group was the founding company of the magazines East Week, East Touch and Oriental Sunday, but the magazines were sold in the 2000s. Oriental Press Group, through subsidiary ...
HONG KONG (AP) - Hong Kong has reported its first case of the H7N9 bird flu strain, in a possible sign the virus is spreading beyond mainland China since it first emerged there earlier this year.
The 2009 swine flu pandemic in Hong Kong was part of the worldwide pandemic that started with the city's first reported case of influenza A virus subtype H1N1 infection, commonly called swine flu, on 1 May 2009, by a Mexican national who had travelled to Hong Kong via Shanghai. It was also the first reported case in Asia. [ 1]