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AP - Fri Aug 11, 7:34 AM ET Two girls walks on a makeshift bridge over a canel where ducks were raised despite a government ban in Ha Tay province, Vietnam on Friday Aug. 11, 2006. Vietnam on Friday announced that they found bird flu virus in its poultry for the first time in eight months. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh) |
AFP/File - Sat Aug 12, 1:05 PM ET Indian government health workers cull chickens suspected of being infected with birdflu in the village of Lasur, in March 2006. India announced it was free of bird flu, six months after the country first reported an outbreak of the deadly virus.(AFP/File/Sebastian D'Souza) (INDIA) |
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Reuters - Fri Aug 11, 4:01 AM ET A seller loads chickens into a cage at Ha Vy wholesale poultry market, 25 km (12.4 miles) south of Hanoi, August 11, 2006. Vietnam, worried about a recurrence of the H5N1 bird flu which has already killed 42 of its people, has found more ducks and geese infected with a strain of avian influenza, state media reported on Friday. REUTERS/Kham (VIETNAM) |
Reuters - Fri Aug 11, 3:57 AM ET Chickens are transported to Ha Vy wholesale poultry market, 25 km (12.4 miles) south of Hanoi, August 11, 2006. Vietnam, worried about a recurrence of the H5N1 bird flu which has already killed 42 of its people, has found more ducks and geese infected with a strain of avian influenza, state media reported on Friday. REUTERS/Kham (VIETNAM) |
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AP - Fri Aug 11, 3:59 AM ET A saleswoman weighs a slaughtered duck at a market in Hanoi, Vietnam on Friday, Aug. 11, 2006. Vietnam on Friday reported its first cases of bird flu this year in poultry, igniting fears of a possible resurgence of the H5N1 virus in the country that had been hailed for controlling its spread. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh) |
AP - Fri Aug 11, 4:12 AM ET A salesman waits for customers to sell his boiled chickens and roasted ducks at his shop in Hanoi, Vietnam on Friday, Aug. 11, 2006. Vietnam on Friday reported its first cases of bird flu this year in poultry, igniting fears of a possible resurgence of the H5N1 virus in the country that had been hailed for controlling its spread. (AP Photo/ Tran Van Minh) |
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Reuters - Wed Aug 9, 8:50 PM ET A veterinarian collects a blue macaw to vaccinate it against bird flu at El Retiro Ornithological Park in Malaga, southern Spain August 9, 2006. (Rafael Marchante/Reuters) |
Reuters - Wed Aug 9, 2:11 PM ET A veterinarian collects a blue macaw to vaccinate it against bird flu at El Retiro Ornithological Park in Malaga, southern Spain August 9, 2006. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante (Spain |
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Reuters - Wed Aug 9, 2:28 PM ET Veterinarians prepare to vaccinate a blue macaw against bird flu at El Retiro Ornithological Park in Malaga, southern Spain, August 9, 2006. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante (Spain) |
Reuters - Wed Aug 9, 2:29 PM ET A blue macaw receives a vaccination against bird flu at El Retiro Ornithological Park in Malaga, southern Spain August 9, 2006. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante (SPAIN) |
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Reuters - Wed Aug 9, 6:08 AM ET A boy tries to take an egg from a chicken cage at a poultry market in Wuhan, Hubei province August 9, 2006. China confirmed on Tuesday that the country's first human case of the H5N1 bird flu virus in 2003 was two years earlier than originally reported, prompting the UN's health agency to call for greater transparency. CHINA OUT REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA) |
AFP/File - Tue Aug 8, 10:32 AM ET A Chinese farming family plucks chicken feathers at their village house in rural Yongding County, Fujian Province. China said its first confirmed human death from bird flu was in 2003, two years earlier than previously reported, showing that the virus was present on the mainland before the latest outbreak was first disclosed elsewhere in Asia.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston) |
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AFP/File - Tue Aug 8, 4:57 AM ET Thai female employees work at the production line of the Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) processing plant in Saraburi, north of Bangkok. Thailand has declared more than one third of the country, including Bangkok, a disaster zone as a precaution to help local officials battle bird flu, officials said.(AFP/File/Saeed Khan) |
AP - Wed Aug 9, 1:30 AM ET Two Thai men bath fighting cocks after the fight training on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2006. The Thai government on Tuesday declared 29 provinces in the country's northern and central including Bangkok bird flu emergency zones, a move that will allow it to more easily make payments to farmers whose birds are slaughtered. The move, came in the wake of several new outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 virus among poultry and two human fatalities, the first in more than eight months. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong) |
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Reuters - Thu Aug 10, 9:23 AM ET Fried ducks are displayed for sale at a shop in Hanoi August 10, 2006. Vietnam has slaughtered 54 ducks in a southern province after tests showed they had a strain of bird flu, the third such finding this year, but there have been no outbreaks of the disease, an official said on Thursday. REUTERS/Kham (VIETNAM) |
AFP/ANP/File - Wed Aug 9, 2:10 PM ET A clearing crew takes chickens from a farm in Voorthuizen on 02 August 2006. Bird flu found on a central Dutch poultry farm this month is a mild form of the H7N7 strain of the virus, the Dutch agriculture ministry said.(AFP/ANP/File/Robin Utrecht) |
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Reuters - Wed Aug 9, 6:29 AM ET Chickens are kept in a cage near a housing area in central Jakarta August 9, 2006. A 17-year-old Indonesian girl from North Jakarta who died on Tuesday had been contact with sick and dead fowl, the usual mode of transmission of the H5N1 bird flu virus that is endemic in poultry in nearly all provinces in the sprawling archipelago. REUTERS/Crack Palinggi (INDONESIA) |
AFP/File - Tue Aug 8, 8:37 AM ET A woman buys poultry on sale at a local market in Hong Kong in June 2006. China has said its first confirmed human death from bird flu was in 2003, two years earlier than previously reported, showing that the virus was present on the mainland before the latest outbreak was first disclosed elsewhere in Asia.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke) |
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AP - Wed Aug 9, 6:13 AM ET A chicken vendor waits for customers at a traditional market in Medan, North Sumatera, Indonesia, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2006. Indonesia, which this week became the world's worst bird flu-hit country, defended its fight against the virus Wednesday, saying it had slaughtered or vaccinated almost 290 million chickens since 2004. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara) |
Reuters - Thu Aug 10, 9:22 AM ET A vendor transports chickens by his motorbike on a street in Hanoi August 10, 2006. Vietnam has slaughtered 54 ducks in a southern province after tests showed they had a strain of bird flu, the third such finding this year, but there have been no outbreaks of the disease, an official said on Thursday. REUTERS/Kham (VIETNAM) |
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AFP/File - Sat Aug 12, 10:33 AM ET A Cambodian health worker collects blood samples from a duck at Korng Pisey district in Kampong Speu province, 45 kms west of Phnom Penh, March 2006. Cambodia has said it has identified a fresh outbreak of bird flu after a four-month lull, following the discovery of the H5N1 virus in poultry.(AFP/File/Khem Sovannara) |
AP - Sat Aug 12, 8:50 AM ET A Cambodian vendor picks up cooked chickens for costumers on the roadside at night in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006. Cambodia's Agriculture Ministry has confirmed a new outbreak of bird flu in poultry in the country's southeast, a ministry official said Saturday. (AP photo/Heng Sinith) |
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AP - Sat Aug 12, 9:11 AM ET A Cambodian girl eats cooked chicken leg with her friend at Teuk Chhou, Kam Pot province, some 150 kilometers (93 miles) south of the capital Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006. Cambodia's Agriculture Ministry has confirmed a new outbreak of bird flu in poultry in the country's southeast, a ministry official said Saturday. (AP photo/Heng Sinith) |
AP - Sat Aug 12, 8:30 AM ET Cambodian vendors grill chickens on the roadside in capital Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006. Cambodia's Agriculture Ministry has confirmed a new outbreak of bird flu in poultry in the country's southeast, a ministry official said Saturday. The outbreak was the virulent H5N1 type of the virus. It was detected Friday in Prey Veng province, which borders Vietnam. The province is about 50 kilometers (30 miles) southeast of the capital Phnom Penh. (AP photo/Heng Sinith) |
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AFP/File - Sat Aug 12, 11:37 AM ET A man waits for customers displaying various birds at his stall at a market in Jakarta, August 10. A teenager has been confirmed as the latest bird flu case in Indonesia, the country worst hit by avian influenza with 44 human deaths recorded, health officials said.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad) |
Reuters - Sun Aug 13, 4:46 AM ET A vendor cuts pieces of chicken at a market in Phnom Penh August 13, 2006. Cambodia has suffered its second outbreak of bird flu this year in the same province where the H5N1 virus killed a boy in April, officials said on Saturday. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea (CAMBODIA) |
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AP - Sun Aug 13, 2:01 AM ET Indonesian health officials slaughter a chicken during a culling after some poultry in the area have been found bird flu-positive in Sikeben village, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Saturday, Aug 12, 2006. The deaths of two teenagers this week pushed Indonesia's human toll from the virus to 44, making it the country worst-hit by the disease. Most of the deaths have occurred this year. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara) |
AFP/file - Sun Aug 13, 4:46 AM ET Workers prepare chickens for sale at a livestock market in Denpasar, on Bali island, earlier this month. More than 50 health and government officials from the Asia-Pacific will gather in Singapore this week to discuss ways to strengthen the region's response to any bird flu pandemic.(AFP/file/Sonny Tumbelaka) |
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AFP/ANP/file - Sun Aug 13, 3:55 AM ET This file photo shows chickens indoors in a poultry farm in Waddinxveen, in the Netherlands. Two owls found dead at the Rotterdam zoo may have been infected with the H5N1 strain of bird flu virus that has killed nearly 140 people.(AFP/ANP/file/Koen Suyk) |
Reuters - Sun Aug 13, 4:41 AM ET A Cambodian chicken vendor works near chickens on display at a market in Phnom Penh August 13, 2006. Cambodia's Agriculture Ministry has confirmed a new outbreak of bird flu in poultry in the country's southeast, a ministry official said Saturday. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea (CAMBODIA) |
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Reuters - Sun Aug 13, 4:38 AM ET A Cambodian vendor prepares roast chickens on display at a street in Phnom Penh August 13, 2006. Cambodia's Agriculture Ministry has confirmed a new outbreak of bird flu in poultry in the country's southeast, a ministry official said Saturday. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea (CAMBODIA) |
AP - Sun Aug 13, 2:02 AM ET Indonesian health officials burn slaughtered chickens during a culling after some poultry in the area have been found bird flu-positive in Sikeben village, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Saturday, Aug 12, 2006. The deaths of two teenagers this week pushed Indonesia's human toll from the virus to 44, making it the country worst-hit by the disease. Most of the deaths have occurred this year. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara) |
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AFP/File - Sun Aug 13, 3:38 AM ET Sold chickens peer from their cages at a market in New Delhi. India announced it was free of bird flu, six months after the country first reported an outbreak of the deadly virus.(AFP/File/Prakash Singh) (INDIA) |
AFP/File - Mon Aug 14, 5:28 AM ET Workers prepare chickens for sale at a livestock market in Denpasar on Bali island, August 2. A teenager confirmed as Indonesia's latest bird flu patient remained in stable condition and has refused to be admitted to hospital, a local health official has said.(AFP/File/Sonny Tumbelaka) |
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AP - Mon Aug 14, 11:32 AM ET A mute swan ruffles its feathers on Lake Arrowhead in Milton, Vt., in this June 1993 file photo. Scientists have discovered the possible presence of bird flu in wild mute swans in Michigan _ but it does not appear to be the most worrisome strain, the Bush administration announced Monday. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Meeri Zetterstrom) |
Reuters - Mon Aug 14, 10:26 AM ET A poultry vendor weighs a chicken at his shop in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata August 14, 2006. India declared itself free of bird flu after nearly four months of reporting no cases of avian influenza in poultry, a senior official said on Monday. REUTERS/Parth Sanyal (INDIA) |
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Reuters - Mon Aug 14, 10:26 AM ET Chickens are seen at a poultry shop in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata August 14, 2006. India declared itself free of bird flu after nearly four months of reporting no cases of avian influenza in poultry, a senior official said on Monday. REUTERS/Parth Sanyal (INDIA) |
Reuters - Mon Aug 14, 11:12 AM ET A Canada goose is released after getting an identification band and a test for H5N1 avian influenza in Greene, Maine July 14, 2006. U.S. officials believe that wild geese in Michigan may have been infected with a strain of the bird flu virus, but it is not thought to be a highly pathogenic strain and is one that has been seen previously in North America, the White House said on Monday. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (US) |
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Reuters - Mon Aug 14, 6:46 AM ET A rooster is seen at a chicken shop in the southern Indian city of Bangalore August 14, 2006. India declared itself free of bird flu after nearly four months of reporting no cases of avian influenza in poultry, a senior animal husbandry official said on Monday. REUTERS/Jagadeesh Nv (INDIA) |
AFP/File - Mon Aug 14, 1:26 PM ET Two swans are seen in England in July 2006. US officials announced that two wild swans have been found carrying a strain of the avian flu virus, although not the potentially lethal type that has caused human death and illness in Asia, Africa and Europe.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis) (UK) |
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AP - Wed Aug 16, 3:08 AM ET Under Indonesia's national emblem, a mythical golden eagle called 'Garuda Pancasila', Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, bottom center, delivers his state address marking the 61st anniversary of the country's independence the Parliament in Jakarta, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2006. Yudhoyono vowed Wednesday to boost funding to fight bird flu, saying the country hardest hit by the disease needed to improve surveillance and stock up on anti-viral medicine. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) |
Reuters - Tue Aug 15, 2:04 AM ET A chicken is injected the bird flu vaccine at a poultry farm on the outskirt of Suining, southwest China's Sichuan province August 15, 2006. A 62-year-old farmer in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang has died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the Health Ministry said on Monday. CHINA OUT REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA) |
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Reuters - Tue Aug 15, 5:57 AM ET Heads of ducks for sale are seen at a market in Xiangfan, central China's Hubei province August 15, 2006. A 62-year-old farmer in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang has died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the Health Ministry said on Monday. CHINA OUT REUTERS/Stringer |
AP - Wed Aug 16, 3:10 AM ET Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, left, and Vice President Jusuf Kalla , right, wave to journalists after delivering the state budget at the parliament in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2006. Yudhoyono vowed Wednesday to boost funding to fight bird flu, saying the country hardest hit by the disease needed to improve surveillance and stock up on anti-viral medicine.(AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim) |
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AFP/File - Tue Aug 15, 4:39 PM ET International movie star Jackie Chan seen here in Manila 04 August 2006. Hong Kong film actor and martial arts star Jackie Chan is lending his action-hero status to the fight against bird flu, appearing in an advert urging children to stay away from dead birds.(AFP/File/Jay Directo) |
AP - Tue Aug 15, 1:01 PM ET In this photo released by UNICEF regional office in Bangkok, Jackie Chan, center, and the children play during the filming of the public service announcement on bird flu at Sha Tin Junior School, Hong Kong on May 9, 2006. World famous actor and martial arts expert Chan, stars in a one-minute new television public service announcement to alert children and their families around the world to the dangers of highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu. (AP Photo/The JC Group, Katharine Mysak, HO) |
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Reuters - Tue Aug 15, 9:09 AM ET An official from the Department of Agriculture tests a bird for avian flu in Alaska, June 6, 2006. In late December, USDA received $91 million in supplemental funding from Congress for bird flu with much of it going toward the surveillance of wild birds. So far, more than 10,000 wild birds have been tested. REUTERS/Daisuke Wakabayashi |
AFP/File - Wed Aug 16, 1:13 PM ET A vendor passes a duck she has just butchered to her daughter at her poultry stall in Beijing in October 2005. China reported a fresh outbreak of bird flu at a duck farm that led to the slaughter of more than 200,000 fowl.(AFP/File/Peter Parks) |
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AFP/File - Wed Aug 16, 3:08 PM ET Boxes of Tamiflu drugs are seen during a seminar on combating influenza in Jakarta in May 2006. Drugs designed to slow the spread of the form of bird flu most deadly to humans need to get a better grip on the H5N1 virus, according to a study.(AFP/File/Adek Berry) |
AFP - Thu Aug 17, 3:08 AM ET A bird vendor in Jakarta. A nine-year-old girl who died this week has been confirmed as Indonesia's 45th bird flu death and may have been part of a cluster of human cases, health authorities said(AFP/Jewel Samad) |
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Reuters - Thu Aug 17, 12:58 AM ET Nurses wearing protective clothes take care of a mock patient, a doll, during a bird flu drill at a hospital in Hefei, east China's Anhui province, August 17, 2006. China has reported a fresh outbreak of bird flu at a duck farm that led to the slaughter of more than 200,000 fowl, Xinhua News Agency reported on Wednesday. REUTERS/Jianan Yu (CHINA) |
AFP/File - Thu Aug 17, 2:25 PM ET A roadside livestock vendor waits for customers sitting among his chickens in Jakarta, April 2006. Deadly bird flu is "endemic" in parts of Asia and is spreading from country to country, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization warned, citing recent cases in Thailand.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad) |
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AFP/File - Fri Aug 18, 12:27 PM ET A Cambodian worker carries chickens from a car at a market in Phnom Penh on August 13. Cambodia has detected two new outbreaks of the deadly bird flu virus in ducks, just days after the disease resurfaced for the first time in more than four months.(AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy) |
AFP/File - Fri Aug 18, 2:01 PM ET A man holds chickens that are about to be cooked in April 2006 at a market in Abidjan. Zimbabwe has with immediate effect banned the importation of poultry products from outside the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to contain bird flu, a minister said.(AFP/File/Issouf Sanogo) |
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AP - Fri Aug 18, 5:43 AM ET An Indonesian man plays with his pigeons in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Aug. 18, 2006. An Indonesian woman died of suspected bird flu in a village that has been hard hit by the disease, a hospital official said Friday, as health workers investigated a new possible cluster of the H5N1 virus. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) |
AP - Sat Aug 19, 2:49 AM ET Ducks line up on a rice paddy at Santo Domingo, Albay province southeast of Manila, Philippines on Friday Aug.18, 2006. The Philippines remains to be a 'bird-flu free' country with practically most of its neighbors in southeast Asia recording deaths since the virus was discovered. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez) |
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AFP/File - Sat Aug 19, 5:39 AM ET State-run hospital staff examine a man suspected of suffering from bird flu in Medan in North Sumatra in May 2006. Health authorities in Indonesia widened an investigation into a potential bird flu cluster in West Java to include nine people, five of whom have already died.(AFP/File/Rahmad ) |
Reuters - Sat Aug 19, 10:32 PM ET A view of Kuta beach from a bungee jumping tower on the Indonesian resort island of Bali in this May 29, 2005 file photo. Tourism in Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago of some 17,000 islands, has been shaken to the core by a string of disasters from bomb attacks on the resort island of Bali to deadly tsunamis and bird flu outbreaks. The drop in tourism since the 2004 tsunami continued this year with foreign tourist arrivals dropping 7.5 percent to 1.89 million in the first half of 2006, the statistics bureau said. To match feature INDONESIA TOURISM REUTERS/Darren Whiteside/Files |
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Reuters - Sat Aug 19, 10:32 PM ET Western tourists watch the sun set near Kuta beach on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, in this May 28, 2005 file photo. Tourism in Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago of some 17,000 islands, has been shaken to the core by a string of disasters from bomb attacks on the resort island of Bali to deadly tsunamis and bird flu outbreaks. The drop in tourism since the 2004 tsunami continued this year with foreign tourist arrivals dropping 7.5 percent to 1.89 million in the first half of 2006, the statistics bureau said. To match feature INDONESIA TOURISM REUTERS/Darren Whiteside/Files |
Reuters - Thu Aug 17, 5:39 AM ET A farmer holds a duck at a rice field in Nakhon Sawan province, 270 km (167 miles) north of Bangkok August 17, 2006. New strains of the H5N1 virus caused some of the fresh outbreaks of bird flu in Thailand and Laos and they appear to have spread from southern China, the Food and Agriculture Organization said on Thursday. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom (THAILAND) |
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AFP - Thu Aug 17, 6:43 AM ET Ducks for sale are displayed at a market in Changsha, in China's central province of Hunan. Recent outbreaks of bird flu in Thailand and Laos were caused by a strain of the virus that originated in China, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization has said.(AFP/Liu Jin) |
Reuters - Thu Aug 17, 5:30 AM ET A farmer tends to a flock of ducks on a rice field in Nakhon Sawan province, 270 km (167 miles) north of Bangkok August 17, 2006. New strains of the H5N1 virus caused some of the fresh outbreaks of bird flu in Thailand and Laos and they appear to have spread from southern China, the Food and Agriculture Organization said on Thursday. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom (THAILAND) |
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Reuters - Thu Aug 17, 5:05 AM ET A duck spreads its wings at a rice field in Nakhon Sawan province, 270 km (167 miles) north of Bangkok August 17, 2006. New strains of the H5N1 virus caused some of the fresh outbreaks of bird flu in Thailand and Laos and they appear to have spread from southern China, the Food and Agriculture Organization said on Thursday. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom (THAILAND) |
AP - Mon Aug 14, 12:48 PM ET Ron DeHaven, administrator of Agriculture Department's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, gestures during a news conference at the Agriculture Department in Washington, Monday, Aug. 14, 2006. Scientists have discovered the possible presence of bird flu in the United States in wild swans near the banks of Lake Erie but it does not appear to be the worrisome strain that the government has long feared that has ravaged poultry and killed at least 138 people overseas. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) |
 AFP - Sun Aug 20, 7:03 AM ET Balinese men participate in bird racing on Serangan beach close to Denpasar. A 35-year-old woman was Indonesia's 46th bird flu death, health authorities said as they stepped up an urgent probe into whether she may belong to a feared cluster of cases(AFP/Sonny Tumbelaka) |
 AP - Sun Aug 20, 4:10 AM ET An Indonesian boy walks next to duck cage at a market in Jakarta, Sunday, Aug 20, 2006. An Indonesian woman died of bird flu in a village that has tallied 12 confirmed or suspected cases of the H5N1 virus, a senior health official said Sunday, as authorities stepped up their investigation into the new possible cluster of cases. (AP Photo/ Irwin Ferdiansyah) |
 AFP/File - Sun Aug 20, 5:25 AM ET Ducks for sale are displayed at a market in Changsha, in China's central province of Hunan. China has blasted as "groundless and irresponsible" a UN report that recent bird flu outbreaks in Thailand and Laos were caused by a virus strain originating in China.(AFP/File/Liu Jin) (CHINA) |
 AP - Sun Aug 20, 4:10 AM ET An Indonesian vendor next to duck wait customers at a market in Jakarta, Sunday, Aug 20, 2006. An Indonesian woman died of bird flu in a village that has tallied 12 confirmed or suspected cases of the H5N1 virus, a senior health official said Sunday, as authorities stepped up their investigation into the new possible cluster of cases. (AP Photo/ Irwin Ferdiansyah) |
 AFP/File - Mon Aug 21, 6:23 AM ET An Indonesian health worker vaccinates a chicken in Surabaya in May 2006. Indonesian health authorities have played down the likelihood of a bird flu cluster case in an area in West Java where at least three people have been infected with the deadly virus.(AFP/File/Agung Swastika) (INDONESIA) |
 AFP - Mon Aug 21, 1:29 AM ET Thai chicken exporters and farmers protest in Bangkok. Some 500 farmers have protested outside European missions in Bangkok to urge the EU not to change its tariffs on Thai chicken as the industry recovers from international bird flu scares(AFP/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul) (THAILAND) |
 AFP/File - Mon Aug 21, 1:00 PM ET Hawk Owls in Blijdorp Zoo in Rotterdam July 2006. Two owls found dead at Rotterdam zoo earlier this month were probably not infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu as initially suspected, the Dutch agriculture ministry has said.(AFP/File/Rob Doolaard) |
 Reuters - Mon Aug 21, 7:42 PM ET A Bosnian pharmacist displays Swiss drug maker Roche's Tamiflu bird flu anti-viral tablets at a pharmacy in the capital Sarajevo February 18, 2006. Public health experts have called on wealthier nations to share scarce antiviral drugs and vaccines with poorer countries in Asia as the world gears up to tackle a possible influenza pandemic. REUTERS/ Danilo Krstanovic |
 AFP/File - Tue Aug 22, 7:47 AM ET Two Balinese men participate in bird racing on Serangan island near Denpasar, August 19. Experts have failed to uncover evidence of bird flu spreading between humans in a remote area in Indonesia where three people have been infected with the virus, the WHO has said.(AFP/File/Sonny Tumbelaka) (INDONESIA) |
 AFP/File - Mon Aug 21, 10:42 AM ET Chickens indoors in a poultry farm in Waddinxveen in August 2005. Russia has imposed an embargo on poultry imports from the Netherlands following an outbreak earlier this month of a mild form of the H7N7 strain of bird flu.(AFP/File/Koen Suyk) (FRANCE) |
 AFP/File - Mon Aug 21, 11:03 AM ET FAO's chief veterinary officer Joseph Domenech during a press conference in Paris in May 2006. The the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned that the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu continues to spread throughout Asia, Africa and Europe, threatening people, animals and economies.(AFP/File/Jack Guez) (FRANCE) |
 AFP/File - Tue Aug 22, 5:48 AM ET Ducks for sale at a market in Changsha, in China's central province of Hunan, on August 17. Japan and China have joined forces to study bird flu and other infectious diseases through an exchange of researchers, despite strained political ties between the Asian powers.(AFP/File/Liu Jin) (CHINA) |
 Reuters - Wed Aug 23, 2:58 AM ET Officials from the department of medical sciences wear chicken outfits, while holding signs that read 'eating cooked chicken is safe' in Bangkok August 23, 2006. Bird flu has spread rapidly since late 2003 from Asia to Europe, killing at least 141 people so far. In Thailand, the virus has killed 16 people including the latest one in early August since the H5N1 virus swept across parts of Asia in late 2003. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom (THAILAND) |
 AP - Wed Aug 23, 1:29 AM ET Government workers, wearing chicken outfits, carry banners saying that eating boiled chicken is safe, despite a recent upsurge in bird flu cases in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2006. H5N1 bird flu virus has killed at least 134 people in Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, including 15 in Thailand. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) (THAILAND) |
 Reuters - Wed Aug 23, 2:55 AM ET Officials from the department of medical sciences wear chicken outfits, while holding signs that read 'eating cooked chicken is safe' in Bangkok August 23, 2006. Bird flu has spread rapidly since late 2003 from Asia to Europe, killing at least 141 people so far. In Thailand, the virus has killed 16 people including the latest one in early August since the H5N1 virus swept across parts of Asia in late 2003. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom (THAILAND) |
 Reuters - Wed Aug 23, 2:56 AM ET Officials from the department of medical sciences wear chicken outfits, while holding signs that read 'eating cooked chicken is safe' in Bangkok August 23, 2006. Bird flu has spread rapidly since late 2003 from Asia to Europe, killing at least 141 people so far. In Thailand, the virus has killed 16 people including the latest one in early August since the H5N1 virus swept across parts of Asia in late 2003. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom (THAILAND) |
 AP - Wed Aug 23, 1:28 AM ET Government workers, wearing chicken outfits, carry banners saying that eating boiled chicken is safe, despite a recent upsurge in bird flu cases in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2006. H5N1 bird flu virus has killed at least 134 people in Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, including 15 in Thailand. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) (THAILAND) |
 AP - Wed Aug 23, 3:04 AM ET **FILE PHOTO** In this electron micrograph provided by the Centers for Disease Control, the bird influenza virus strain H5N1, seen in gold, grown in MDCK cells, seen in green, are in this 1997 photograph. (AP Photo/Centers for Disease Control, C. Goldsmith) (RESEARCH) |
 AFP/File - Wed Aug 23, 2:19 PM ET A poultry seller prepares a chicken at his shop in down town Bangkok. More than 800,000 health volunteers will be sent door-to-door in 30 Thai provinces to educate people on bird flu prevention, Thai health minister Pinij Jarusombat said.(AFP/File/Saeed Khan) (THAILAND) |
 AFP/ANP/File - Wed Aug 23, 2:23 PM ET A crew clears chickens from a farm in Voorthuizen on 02 August 2006. The Netherlands was set to lift some restrictions imposed to stem a mildly pathogenic strain of bird flu, the agriculture ministry said, with other measures on poultry due to follow next month.(AFP/ANP/File) (NETHERLANDS) |
 Reuters - Fri Aug 25, 1:01 AM ET A chicken looks out from a cage in Jakarta August 25, 2006. Bird flu may be endemic in poultry in most parts of Indonesia, but experts say public ignorance, official ineptitude and lack of funds are to blame for the mounting human deaths from the virus in the sprawling archipelago. REUTERS/Beawiharta (INDONESIA) |
 Reuters - Thu Aug 24, 5:27 AM ET The World Bank's Indonesia country director Andrew Steer (R) accompanied by Georg Peterson, World Health Organization (WHO) Indonesia country director speaks at a news conference in Jakarta on August 24, 2006. The World Bank urged the Indonesian government on Thursday to increase its budget for the bird flu programme, saying the virus was a severe threat to the country's economy and the health of its people. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA) |
 AP - Fri Aug 25, 11:28 AM ET Owner Tom Whiting holds a rooster one of the roughly 85,000 chickens at Whiting Fams in Delta, Colo., on June 8, 2006. Whiting controls every aspect of the company that produces feathers for fly fisherman, but has still felt the affects of the bird flu hysteria. (AP Photo/John Marshall) (US) |
 AP - Fri Aug 25, 11:40 AM ET Just some of the thousands of varieties of fly fishing flies at the Fly-Fishing World Trade Expo at the Denver Convention Center on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2006. Loose feathers and strung hackle, feathers that are plucked and sewn back together, are still allowed into the United States after they've been certified clean (steamed at high enough temperatures to kill the bird flu virus). That hasn't affected the fly-tying industry much. What has is a USDA ban on importing feathers still attached to the skin from the three dozen or so countries where H5N1 has been detected. (AP Photo/John Marshall) (US) |
 AP - Fri Aug 25, 11:40 AM ET Ron Taniwaki of Denver practices casting at the Fly-Fishing World Trade Expo at the Denver Convention Center on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2006. Loose feathers and strung hackle, feathers that are plucked and sewn back together, are still allowed into the United States after they've been certified clean (steamed at high enough temperatures to kill the bird flu virus). That hasn't affected the fly-tying industry much. What has is a USDA ban on importing feathers still attached to the skin from the three dozen or so countries where H5N1 has been detected. (AP Photo/John Marshall) (US) |
AP - Fri Aug 25, 11:40 AM ET Whiting Farms in Delta, Colo. has roughly 85,000 chickens in pens like these, to be harvested for feathers that will be used for making fly fishing flies. (John Marshall/AP) (US) |
 AP - Tue Aug 29, 10:28 PM ET Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, left, with biologist, Cheryl Rosa, gathers test samples from birds, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2006, in Barrow, Ala. Hundreds of miles above the Arctic Circle, biologists working in the frosty marshes of Alaska's North Slope are keeping a lookout for migratory birds that might bring a deadly avian flu strain to the United States. (AP Photo/H. Josef Hebert) (USA) |
 AP - Tue Aug 29, 10:26 PM ET U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne holds a young Dunlin shorebird after taking a test sample from the bird, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2006, in Barrow, Ala. Hundreds of miles above the Arctic Circle, biologists working in the frosty marshes of Alaska's North Slope are keeping a lookout for migratory birds that might bring a deadly avian flu strain to the United States. (AP Photo/H. Josef Hebert) (USA) |
 AP - Tue Aug 29, 10:27 PM ET U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, right, watches volunteer Audrey Taylor tag a young Dunlin shorebird, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2006, in Barrow, Ala. Hundreds of miles above the Arctic Circle, biologists working in the frosty marshes of Alaska's North Slope are keeping a lookout for migratory birds that might bring a deadly avian flu strain to the United States. (AP Photo/H. Josef Hebert) (USA) |
 AFP - Wed Aug 30, 7:26 AM ET Commuters pass by a bird in a cage at a pet shop along a street in Jakarta. The United Nations food and agriculture agency has said it had produced a booklet preparing small-scale poultry producers in Latin America and the Caribbean for the possible arrival of bird flu.(AFP/Jewel Samad) (RESEARCH) |
 Ducks are for sale at a market in Changsha, in China's central province of Hunan, August 17. China plans to mass produce a vaccine to protect humans against the deadly bird flu virus after initial tests indicated it was safe, state media have said.(AFP/File/Liu Jin) (CHINA) |
 Reuters - Mon Aug 28, 12:07 AM ET A chicken looks out from a cage in Jakarta August 25, 2006. Vietnam, which has been free of human bird flu cases this year, has found the H5N1 virus on a small duck farm, animal health officials said on Monday. REUTERS/Beawiharta (VIETNAM) |
