A tide carrying dead ducks, chickens and other birds has been washing out of China into the sea surrounding Hong Kong, bringing with it growing fears that China is in the grip of a covered-up bird flu outbreak. With each day that passes, more dead birds, ducks and chickens have washed up on the beaches of Hong Kong, suggesting that H5N1 - infected birds may have been dumped into China's polluted Pearl River and carried by the tide to Hong Kong waters. China has insisted there are no bird flu outbreaks, despite eight human cases in January alone this year.
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