21.   The Latinos, mainly recent arrivals from Mexico, were accustomed to keeping live chickens outside their homes.

22.   The markets are packed with exotic produce, live chickens and fish and prawns, and even cookware.

23.   There are eyewitness accounts of live chickens, on their way from poultry market to soup pot, escaping from sacks and running amok through the cars.

24.   When Audrey Squire was growing up in Ghana, her family bought live chickens at the market and slaughtered them for dinner.

25.   A ban on importing live chickens is expected to be lifted at the end of January or early February.

26.   All live chickens from the mainland are now supplied through the Cheung Sha Wan wholesalers.

27.   As part of the ritual, some Jews symbolically cast out their sins in a ceremony that includes swinging a live chicken over their heads.

28.   Before the start of the holiday, some Jews went to marketplaces where they waved live chickens in a circle above their heads in a symbolic ridding of sins.

29.   Before the outbreak, live chickens and ducks were often kept and slaughtered at the same poultry retail outlets in markets, some with substandard hygiene.

30.   Clearing Hong Kong of live chickens, said Subbarao, may have ended the outbreak, at least for now.