RIYADH, 11 November 2005 — Fears of bird flu outbreak have hit chicken sales in Riyadh. All poultry retail shops, mainly manned by Bangladeshi, Asian or Arab expatriates, are experiencing a sharp decline in sales. “Our sales have dropped by 15 percent and as a result we have cut down orders for live poultry and poultry products,” said Mobin Chowdhury, who runs a poultry shop in the city center, here. Chowdhury said that “the avian flu fears or a possible outbreak would hit the local poultry sector very badly and the losses would be in the vicinity of millions of riyals.”