 AFP/File - Thu Apr 27, 7:55 AM ET A scientist tests samples for avian flu. Animal health experts were due to release more details about the discovery of the H7 strain of bird flu in a number of dead poultry on a farm in eastern England.(AFP/File/Carl De Souza) (UK) |
 Turkeys are seen in a street market in Sale, Morocco, April 25, 2006. Africa needs the capacity and donor aid to react swiftly to deal with a potentially large-scale outbreak of bird flu, a conference of experts said on Monday. African scientists must step up cooperation to fight bird flu, with lack of information almost as dangerous as lack of resources as the continent faces its next big health threat, a regional meeting heard on Monday. REUTERS/Dani Cardona |
 Chickens stand inside a cage at a market in Islamabad April 20, 2006. Pakistan reported mounting cases of the deadly H5NI bird flu virus on Monday after discovering more infected farms close to Islamabad. (Faisal Mahmood/Reuters) |
 Daniel Clair outside his empty poultry farm in eastern France. The farm was infected with the bird flu virus. EU agriculture ministers have approved extra aid to farmers hit by a serious slump in poultry sales due to the spreading bird flu crisis.(AFP/File/Philippe Merle) (FRANCE) |
 An Afghan man (R) offers a chicken for sale in Kabul, Afghanistan April 25, 2006. The deadly H5N1 bird flu virus has been found in poultry in a fourth Afghan province, a United Nations agency said on Tuesday, adding the disease seemed to be slowly spreading in the country. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood |
 A Kenyan trader carries chickens for sale in an open air market in Nairobi, in 2005. Africa needs the capacity and donor aid to react swiftly to deal with a potentially large-scale outbreak of bird flu, a conference of experts from 19 African countries heard(AFP/File/Simon Maina) (AFRICA) |
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 A tourist is startled by a flock of pigeons at a public park in Bangkok on April 8. Thailand is bracing for a new outbreak of bird flu, boosting stockpiles of anti-viral drugs and sending aid to its poorer neighbors to help stop the disease.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo) (THAILAND) |
Reuters - Thu Apr 27, 10:57 AM ET A duck stands at the lagoon shore in the Marcory Anoumabo suburbs of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, April 27, 2006. Ivory Coast prepared to slaughter chickens and tightened restrictions on movements of poultry on Thursday after reporting outbreaks of bird flu in two heavily populated neighbourhoods of its main city Abidjan. The World Organisation for Animal Health said late on Wednesday a total of 17 birds infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu had been found in separate outbreaks in the Marcory Anoumabo and Treichville suburbs of Abidjan. REUTERS/Luc Gnago (AFRICA) |
 Reuters - Fri Apr 28, 4:09 AM ET A Vietnamese woman carries chickens at a wholesale poultry market in Hanoi in this February 24, 2005 file photo. Vietnam, the country hardest-hit by avian flu but free of the disease for six months, will present a model plan on containing the virus at an Asia-Pacific conference next week, international officials said on April 28, 2006. (Kham Kham/Reuters) (VIETNAM) |
 Reuters - Thu Apr 27, 3:21 PM ET A vender unloads a duck from a truck outside a wholesale market in Nanjing, March 24, 2006. China announced on Thursday that an eight-year-old girl had caught H5N1 bird flu, reporting its second human case this month a day after a top WHO official warned the world to prepare for a long fight against the virus. (Stringer/Reuters) (CHINA) |
 AFP/File - Fri Apr 28, 1:13 PM ET An auto-rickshaw driver transports a passenger and his chickens in Jakarta, 06 April 2006. A 30-year-old Indonesian man who died earlier this week was infected with bird flu, a health official said, citing results from local tests(AFP/File/Jewel Samad) (INDONESIA) |
 AFP/File - Fri Apr 28, 1:14 PM ET Vet technicians vaccinate a rooster in the northern Vietnamese province of Bac Giang, 11 April 2006. International health experts praised Vietnam for containing bird flu but cautioned against complacency as the country moves from its emergency response into the prevention phase(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) (VIETNAM) |
 AFP/File - Sat Apr 29, 5:52 PM ET A free range chicken is pictured at a farm in Strathkinness, Fife in Scotland. More poultry flocks will be slaughtered after chickens tested positive for the H7 strain of bird flu in two more farms in eastern England, the British environment ministry said.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza) (SCOTLAND) |
 AFP/File - Sat Apr 29, 5:06 PM ET Birds play on ornate rooftop designs of a temple in Hohhot, in China's northwest Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, February 2006. China denied it was covering up its human cases of bird flu and insisted that officials have quickly reported incidents, state media reported.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown) (CHINA) |
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AFP/File - Sat Apr 29, 10:09 AM ET A tourist in front of the Temple of Apollo and Athena in Turkey. Turkey is unlikely to achieve its aim of drawing 26 million tourists this year, a minister said Saturday, as fewer foreigners are coming, put off by a bird flu outbreak and bombings by Kurdish rebels.(AFP/File/Cem Turkel) (TURKEY) |
'Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America.' The ABC made-for-TV movie
 AP - Fri Apr 28, 4:10 PM ET In this image provided by ABC, chickens are confiscated in a scene from 'Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America.' The ABC made-for-TV movie follows an outbreak of an Avian Flu from its origins in a Hong Kong market through its mutation into a virus transmittable from human to human around the world and airs May 9 in the U.S., just as scientists are to begin testing of wild birds in Alaska that could herald the arrival of bird flu in North America. (AP Photo/ABC, Ken George, HO) (US) |
 AP - Fri Apr 28, 4:53 PM ET This undated image provided by ABC, shows actor Scott Cohen in a scene from 'Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America' filmed in Auckland, New Zealand. The ABC made-for-TV movie follows an outbreak of Avian Flu from its origins in a Hong Kong market through its mutation into a virus transmittable from human to human around the world and airs May 9. (AP Photo/ABC, Ken George, HO) (US) |
 This undated image provided by ABC, shows actress Joely Richardson in a scene from 'Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America' filmed in Auckland, New Zealand. (US) |
 AFP - Fri Apr 28, 1:14 PM ET WHO country representative Dr. Hans Troedsson, seen speaking in Hanoi. International health experts praised Vietnam for containing bird flu but cautioned against complacency as the country moves from its emergency response into the prevention phase(AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam) (WHO) |
 AFP/File - Fri Apr 28, 1:14 PM ET A woman walks past an educational poster telling people to cook chicken properly before eating it, in Hanoi, 12 April 2006. International health experts praised Vietnam for containing bird flu but cautioned against complacency as the country moves from its emergency response into the prevention phase(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) (VIETNAM) |
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A Pakistani resident walks in an area where a warning sign for bird flu is displayed in Tarlai near Islamabad April 25, 2006. On Tuesday, Pakistani authorities confirmed that the number of poultry farms infected with the deadly H5N1 virus near the Pakistani capital had risen to 11, and tests are pending on a handful of others. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood (PAKISTAN) |
 AP - Wed Apr 26, 1:26 PM ET Animal health workers collect ducks to be killed at Kampong Speu province's Tuol Prik village on Friday, March 31, 2006. In one of the largest studies of its kind, scientists in Cambodia took blood samples from 351 people in a small village where one of the country's six bird flu deaths traced to the H5N1 virus was confirmed. The virulent H5N1 bird flu virus has hit 45 countries killing more than 100 people and leading to the death of 200 million birds and the impoverishment of millions of small poultry farmers _ and it seems to be spreading quickly, the U.N. bird flu chief said Wednesday, April 26, 2006. (AP Photo/ Heng Sinith) (CAMBODIA) |
 AP - Fri Apr 28, 8:25 AM ET Culled chickens are removed from Witford Lodge Farm near Dereham, England, Friday, April 28, 2006. Chickens at the farm are being slaughtered after some tested positive for bird flu, though officials say they believe the poultry were not suffering from the deadly H5N1 strain. Preliminary test results showed that the virus was likely to be the H7 strain, not H5N1, said a spokesman for the environment ministry, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with department policy. He said further tests were being carried out. H7 and H9 strains also have jumped from birds to people, although so far they haven't been nearly as dangerous as H5N1. The incident was the second bird flu scare to hit Britain in recent weeks, after a dead whooper swan discovered in Scotland tested positive for H5N1. (AP Photo/Chris Radburn/PA) (UK) |
 Reuters - Fri Apr 28, 11:20 AM ET A worker a moves a dead chicken to be transported from Whitford Lodge Farm near Hockering in eastern England, where a case of bird flu has been discovered, April 28, 2006. The government started culling 35,000 birds on a poultry farm in the east of the country on Thursday after a strain of bird flu was detected in chickens. Preliminary tests showed the virus was likely to be an H7 strain of bird flu, not the lethal H5N1 avian virus. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor. (UK) |
 Reuters - Fri Apr 28, 11:04 AM ET A dead chicken is seen sticking out the top of a lorry at Whitford Lodge Farm near Hockering in eastern England, where a case of bird flu has been discovered, April 28, 2006. The government is to start culling 35,000 birds on a poultry farm in the east of the country on Thursday after a strain of bird flu was detected in chickens. Preliminary tests showed the virus was likely to be an H7 strain of bird flu, not the lethal H5N1 avian virus. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor. (UK) |
Reuters - Fri Apr 28, 11:18 AM ET A truck carrying some of the thousands of culled chickens leaves Whitford Lodge Farm near Hockering in eastern England, where a case of bird flu has been discovered, April 28, 2006. The government started culling 35,000 birds on a poultry farm in the east of the country on Thursday after a strain of bird flu was detected in chickens. Preliminary tests showed the virus was likely to be an H7 strain of bird flu, not the lethal H5N1 avian virus. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor. (UK) |
 AP - Fri Apr 28, 8:26 AM ET A farm worker wearing a protective face mask and a head scarf in the style of the Union flag walks past a disease prevention sign at Witford Lodge Farm near Dereham, England, Friday, April 28, 2006. Chickens at the farm are being slaughtered after some tested positive for bird flu, though officials say they believe the poultry were not suffering from the deadly H5N1 strain. Preliminary test results showed that the virus was likely to be the H7 strain, not H5N1, said a spokesman for the environment ministry, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with department policy. He said further tests were being carried out. H7 and H9 strains also have jumped from birds to people, although so far they haven't been nearly as dangerous as H5N1. The incident was the second bird flu scare to hit Britain in recent weeks, after a dead whooper swan discovered in Scotland tested positive for H5N1. (AP Photo/Chris Radburn/PA) (UK) |
 AP - Fri Apr 28, 8:26 AM ET A farm worker wearing a protective face mask and a head scarf in the style of the Union flag at Witford Lodge Farm near Dereham, England, Friday, April 28, 2006. Chickens at the farm are being slaughtered after some tested positive for bird flu, though officials say they believe the poultry were not suffering from the deadly H5N1 strain. Preliminary test results showed that the virus was likely to be the H7 strain, not H5N1, said a spokesman for the environment ministry, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with department policy. He said further tests were being carried out. H7 and H9 strains also have jumped from birds to people, although so far they haven't been nearly as dangerous as H5N1. The incident was the second bird flu scare to hit Britain in recent weeks, after a dead whooper swan discovered in Scotland tested positive for H5N1. (AP Photo/Chris Radburn/PA) (UK) |
 Reuters - Fri Apr 28, 7:10 AM ET Health workers disinfect the home of a eight-year-old girl who has caught H5N1 bird flu in Suining, southwest China's Sichuan province April 28, 2006. China announced on Thursday that an eight-year-old girl had caught H5N1 bird flu, reporting its second human case this month a day after a top WHO official warned the world to prepare for a long fight against the virus. (CHINA) |
 Reuters - Fri Apr 28, 7:44 AM ET A health worker disinfects the home of a eight-year-old girl who has caught H5N1 bird flu in Suining, southwest China's Sichuan province April 28, 2006. The girl, surnamed Sun, from Tangjia Township in Suining City of Sichuan Province, showed symptoms of fever and pneumonia on April 16. She is being treated in a local hospital, according to the ministry. Investigators report that poultry deaths occurred in the patient's house before she caught the deadly disease. The new case brought the total number of human cases of bird flu in China to 18. Twelve of them have died, Xinhua News Agency reported. CHINA OUT REUTERS/China Daily. (CHINA) |
 AFP/File - Wed Apr 26, 10:14 AM ET Firemen wearing protective gear on the boat carry out a dead bird at Podhradsky pond in the city of Hluboka nad Vltavou some 160km south of Prague, in March 2006. The Czech Republic's national veterinary services confirmed that all 12 cases of bird flu detected in the country in the past month were the H5N1 strain which can be deadly to humans.(AFP/File/Michal Cizek) (CZECH) |
 AFP/File - Wed Apr 26, 5:58 AM ET Two wild ducks rest at the Federal Ornithological Station site on Sempach Lake in the center of Switzerland, in November 2005. Measures to confine Swiss poultry indoors because of the threat of bird flu contamination will be lifted nationwide on May 1, Swiss veterinary authorities announced.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini) (SWITZERLAND) |
 Sat Apr 29, 5:22 AM ET A nurse feeds fruit to a eight-year-old girl who has caught H5N1 bird flu at a local hospital in Suining, southwest China's Sichuan province April 29, 2006. Sun from Tangjia Township in Suining City of Sichuan Province, showed symptoms of fever and pneumonia on April 16. Investigators report that poultry deaths occurred in the patient's house before she caught the deadly disease. The new case brought the total number of human cases of bird flu in China to 18. Twelve of them have died, Xinhua News Agency reported. (CHINA) REUTERS/China Daily |
 Reuters - Fri Apr 28, 6:38 AM ET A eight-year-old girl whose family name is Sun (R), who has caught H5N1 bird flu, receives medical treatment at a local hospital in Suining, southwest China's Sichuan province April 28, 2006. The girl has been infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu, China's Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday, citing the country's Ministry of Health. REUTERS/Stringer. (CHINA) |
 Reuters - Fri Apr 28, 7:07 AM ET A eight-year-old girl whose family name is Sun, who has caught H5N1 bird flu, receives medical treatment at a local hospital in Suining, southwest China's Sichuan province April 28, 2006. Sun from Tangjia Township in Suining City of Sichuan Province, showed symptoms of fever and pneumonia on April 16. Investigators report that poultry deaths occurred in the patient's house before she caught the deadly disease. The new case brought the total number of human cases of bird flu in China to 18. Twelve of them have died, Xinhua News Agency reported.(CHINA) CHINA OUT REUTERS/China Daily |
 AP - Fri Apr 28, 11:19 AM ET A nurse reads to a bird flu patient surnamed Sun at a local hospital in Suining, in southwest China's Sichuan province Friday April 28, 2006. China has confirmed that the girl has been infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus, the country's 18th case. (AP Photo/Color China Photo) (CHINA) |
 AFP/File - Thu Apr 27, 7:22 AM ET Photo dated December 2005 shows a Bangladeshi vendor, with a cage full of parrots, waiting for customers in Dhaka. Health ministers from seven South Asian nations have decided to develop a common strategy to combat bird-flu in the region.(AFP/File/Farjana K. Godhuly) (CHINA) |
 AFP/File - Thu Apr 27, 7:29 AM ET Veterinary staff examine chickens at a laboratory in Myanmar's northern city of Mandalay in March 2006. Myanmar plans to resume sales of chicken within days in Mandalay, after banning poultry sales in a bid to control a bird flu outbreak.(AFP/File) |
 Reuters - Wed Apr 26, 6:34 PM ET Free-range chickens roam outdoors near Lewes, February 22, 2006. Dead chickens on a farm in eastern England have tested positive for bird flu, the government said on Wednesday. (Luke MacGregor/Reuters) (UK)
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 AP - Wed Apr 26, 8:50 PM ET Vietnamese women make their way down a path at an illegal border crossing from China into Vietnam in Lan Son province in northern Vietnam Monday, April 17, 2006. The smugglers easily evade patrols along the rugged 1,350-kilometer (840-mile) border by using two-way radios and a network of illegal crossings that have become gateways for a new threat _ bird flu. Vietnam estimates about 4,500 chickens are trafficked into the country this way every day from China in a trade that is nearly impossible to police because of scarce resources. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) (CHINA) (VIETNAM) |
 AFP - Thu Apr 27, 10:28 AM ET A man holds chickens at a market in Abidjan. Ivory Coast says it will set up telephone hotlines and squads of roving "sanitary police" while awaiting laboratory confirmation from health officials in Paris of an avian flu outbreak in the capital Abidjan.(AFP/Issouf Sanogo) (AFRICA) |
 AP - Fri Apr 21, 2:34 PM ET Employees of Pakistan Poultry Research Institute fill bag to kill chickens after an outbreak of H5N1 strain of bird flu in suburb of Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, April 21, 2006. The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been confirmed at five more poultry farms near Islamabad promting the culling of about 25,000 chickens, official said.(AP Photo/B.K.Bangash) (PAKISTAN) |
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A health worker disinfects birds kept in cages at a market in Denpasar, on Bali island. Authorities on the Indonesian resort island of Bali have slaughtered more than 400 birds, mostly ducks, after random tests showed bird flu infections among them, officials said.(AFP/File/Sonny Tumbelaka) (BALI) |
 AP - Fri Apr 21, 2:34 PM ET Employees of Pakistan Poultry Research Institute fill bag to kill chickens after an outbreak of H5N1 strain of bird flu in a suburb of Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, April 21, 2006. The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been confirmed at five more poultry farms near Islamabad promting the culling of about 25,000 chickens, official said.(AP Photo/B.K.Bangash) (PAKISTAN) |
 AP - Fri Apr 21, 2:31 PM ET Workers of a farm hand over chickens to employees of Pakistan Poultry Research Institute to kill them after an outbreak of H5N1 strain of bird flu in suburb of Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, April 21, 2006. The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been confirmed at five more poultry farms near Islamabad prompting the culling of about 25,000 chickens, official said.(AP Photo/B.K.Bangash) (PAKISTAN) |
 AP - Sat Apr 22, 2:55 AM ET A Chinese vendor near a motorcycle loaded with poultry at a market in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province, Friday April 21, 2006. A 21-year-old migrant worker died of the H5N1 bird flu strain in central China, becoming the country's 12th human fatality since November, the government announced Friday.(AP Photo) (CHINA) |
 Reuters - Wed Apr 26, 4:32 PM ET A hen walks across a street with her chicks in the town of Kaya in Burkina Faso, April 6, 2006. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly |
 AP - Wed Apr 26, 2:51 PM ET A man working at a local chicken market in the city of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Wednesday, April 26, 2006. Ivory Coast has reported its first cases of H5N1 bird flu, in both domestic poultry and in wild birds, the World Organization for Animal Health said Wednesday.(AP/Photo) (AFRICA) |
 AFP - Getty Images file Veterinarians in Malaysia catch chickens in March during a culling operation at Permatang Bagak village in Penang state. Close contact with infected birds is a hazard, but most of us need not worry about bird flu, according to those who say the risks have been greatly exaggerated. (MALAYSIA) |
 AFP/File - Sun Apr 23, 4:26 PM ET Poultry on sale at the market of the Dan Bouda village, 15km from Zinder, southeastern Niger in March 2006. Veterinary and wildlife experts from 19 African countries Monday begin a five-day meeting in Malawi to discuss better surveillance against bird-flu which has hit five countries on the continent.(AFP/File/Issouf Sanogo) (AFRICA)
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AP - Wed Apr 26, 2:51 PM ET A masked man holds a rooster March 14 in Maradi, Niger, where the lethal H5N1 bird flu virus has been detected. A new report finds that face masks offer relatively little protection against influenza viruses. (AFRICA) |
AP - Wed Apr 26, 2:51 PM ET People working at a local market slaughtering chickens in the city of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Wednesday, April 26, 2006. Ivory Coast reported its first case of H5N1 bird flu, in both domestic poultry and in wild birds, the World Organization for Animal Health said Wednesday. (AFRICA) |
