Excellent set of stats there which certainly point towards the trade in birds having a significant role the spread of this virus.
I don't know how far the Society has got with the HK Governemt on this issue, but is it worthwhile going further afield with information like Paul has supplied? For example, I read the BBC website news regularly, which always appears to focus on European cases. Perhaps they could also do with a more global perspective and feature HK?
The relatively small size of HK and with the regular (?) of releasing birds for religious ceremonies, combined with the abundance of bird experts in the SAR, it really does make the area a pretty good Case Study I think for establishing the link between the bird trade and H5N1.
I'm sure that people higher up the food-chain than myself have thought of this and put the wheels in motion, however I just wanted to add my thoughts.
