date:May 13, 2013
trix expected them to fall 27 percent.
Yum shares, which closed at a five-week high of $70.36 before the China sales report dropped, slipped 1.2 percent to $69.50 in after-hours trading.
Demand for poultry products - including fried chicken sold by KFC - took a big hit in early April as news of the novel bird flu strain, the H7N9 virus, made headlines. Currently, that flu has killed more than 30 people.
Most of Yum's nearly 5,300 restaurants in China are KFCs.
The bird flu outbreak has hobbl