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Information leaflets to airline passengers leaving for Mainland
In response to media enquiries, a spokesman for the Health, Welfare and Food
Bureau said today (November 7) that arrangements had been made by the Department
of Health for the dissemination of information leaflets to airline passengers
leaving for the Hunan, Anhui and Liaoning Provinces of the Mainland to remind
them to take precautionary measures to guard against avian influenza during and
after their trips.
Arrangements had also been made with the airlines to broadcast health messages
on board all in-bound flights from these places to remind travellers to be
vigilant against the disease, the spokesman added.
Ends/Monday, November 7, 2005
Issued at HKT 18:20
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