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Hong Kong health authorities have apologised for mistakenly giving pneumococcal vaccines to two children at a health centre instead of hepatitis B jabs. The errors were detected during a regular check when personnel at the Tin Shui Wai Maternal and Child Health Centre reviewed vaccination records after service hours on Monday, a spokesman for the…
Some Hong Kong seafood suppliers have suffered a 30 per cent drop in business amid fears over a potentially deadly bacterial infection linked to raw freshwater fish, a sector leader has said, after a rise in cases in the past week. Health authorities said they were in contact with officials in mainland China, one of…