Despite recent outbreaks, Hong-Kong government officials have decided to resume pork imports from Sichuan province, which has been hardest hit by the recent epidemic.
The Center for Health Protection said the latest patient had no visible wounds and hadn't traveled recently outside Hong Kong.
Pork from Sichuan and Henan provinces, and also Shenzhen, which supplies over 60 percent of the frozen and chilled pork to Hong Kong, will re-enter Hong Kong today for the first time since imports were banned late last month, according to The Standard.
Center for Health Protection principal medical and health officer, Chuang Shuk-kwan Chuang said genetic characterization of the first nine of the 11 cases known in Hong Kong have shown different bacterial strains, suggesting the previous cases were sporadic and that there was no link between them.
