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China consumers shrug off bird flu outbreak, unaware of severity
Published Mon, Feb 20, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Shanghai
FOUR years ago, a bird flu outbreak in China killed at least three dozen people, triggered mass poultry culling, put masks on millions of Chinese faces and hammered shares in fast-food and travel companies.
This winter, more than 100 people have died, but few birds have been slaughtered, there are few masks on the streets and little sign of any consumer reaction, let alone the panic seen in 2013.
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