Information leaflets to airline passengers leaving for Mainland
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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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