The Director of Health, Dr P Y Lam, speaks at the opening ceremony of the seminar organised by the Department of Health's Centre for Health Protection on avian influenza and the use of anti-viral drugs today (January 21). The aim of the seminar is to pool the knowledge, expertise and intelligence of healthcare professionals to gear up Hong Kong's preparedness against avian flu. About 700 local professionals and a number of distinguished experts in infectious diseases participated in the event.   Close