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Experts have warned against touching or feeding Hong Kong’s wild monkeys after a man wounded by macaques was left in a critical condition in the city’s first case of human B virus infection. According to a Centre for Health Protection (CHP) statement issued Wednesday, the 37-year-old “with good past health” was admitted to Yan Chai Hospital on March 21 with a fever and “decreased level of consciousness,” and was receiving treatment in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit. He had been wounded by wild macaques during a visit to Kam Shan Country Park – known colloquially as Monkey Mountain – in lat…

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