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AFP/File - Fri Dec 1, 3:39 AM ET Ducks fly over the border between North and South Korea. South Korean soldiers are guarding quarantine zones around two poultry farms hit by bird flu, as officials started slaughtering hundreds of thousands of birds in an expanded cull(AFP/File/Jung Yeon-Je) |
Fri, 01 Dec 2006 5:06 PM PST BOISE - You may not know it, but the wings of upland game birds can tell a lot about their lives. |
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Reuters - Fri Dec 1, 8:04 AM ET A member of the Swiss civil defence (R) disinfects a colleague during a bird flu preparedness exercise in the western Swiss town Rances December 1, 2006. REUTERS/ARC/Dominic Favre (SWITZERLAND) |
AFP/File - Fri Dec 1, 3:39 AM ET South Korean health officials take samples from a poultry farm. Soldiers are guarding quarantine zones around two poultry farms hit by bird flu, as officials started slaughtering hundreds of thousands of birds in an expanded cull(AFP/File/Jeon Young-Han) |
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Sat, 02 Dec 2006 1:48 AM PST Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News Birds rest near Shanghai Hongqiao Airport in Shanghai November 7, 2006. China has promised the new head of the World Health Organisation that it will share bird flu samples more quickly, after worries Chinese secrecy was hampering understanding of the virus, Hong Kong papers said on Saturday. REUTERS/Stringer/File |
Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:36 AM PST Dexter Daily Statesman Sacha Champion photo - A myriad of business and organizations attended the Stoddard County Public Health Center's Pandemic Influenza exercise Thursday in Dexter. |
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AFP/File - Sun Dec 3, 7:23 AM ET South Korean health officials wearing protective suits prepare for a slaughter at a chicken farm where the bird flu virus was found in Iksan in November 2006. South Korea has culled some 771,000 chickens since it reported two new bird flu outbreaks in its southwest late last month.(AFP/File/Park Yeong Cheol) |
December 4, 2006 Omar Ornelas, The Desert Sun Hunters check out their prey at Imperial Wildlife Area. Some samples are taken of Northern Pintail, American Wigeon and American Green Winged-Teal excrement to be analyzed for Avian Flu in migratory birds of North America. |
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AFP/File - Mon Dec 4, 10:26 AM ET A woman buys a chicken at a local market in Bamako, Mali, January 2006. International health experts gather in Mali this week for a bird flu conference amid warnings that Africa risks becoming a permanent host to the virus that has triggered concerns of a global pandemic.(AFP/File/Jean-Philippe Ksiazek) |
Reuters - Mon Dec 4, 9:30 PM ET A cook prepares chicken soup for lunch during a photo opportunity to promote the safe consumption of chicken at a cafeteria of Seoul city hall in Seoul November 29, 2006. Infected poultry imported by Brazil, Canada or Mexico is the most likely route for bird flu to spread into the Americas, a group of researchers predicted on Monday. (Lee Jae-Won/Reuters) |
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AP - Tue Dec 5, 8:56 AM ET Birds from Latin America , not from the north |
AP - Tue Dec 5, 8:38 AM ET Local children play with chickens in Birnin Yero Gari, near Jaji, Nigeria, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006. The farm in northern Nigeria where Africa's first case of a deadly bird flu strain was discovered has replaced its slaughtered fowl, and chicken has started to return to local menus after four months without a report of the virus. But as experts from around the world gather in Mali for a conference opening Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006, on the ongoing battle against the avian infection, the status of bird flu remains uncertain in Nigeria and throughout the continent. (AP Photo/George Osodi) |
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AP - Tue Dec 5, 8:37 AM ET A Nigerian boy watches chickens in Birnin Yero Gari, near Jaji, Nigeria, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006. The farm in northern Nigeria where Africa's first case of a deadly bird flu strain was discovered has replaced its slaughtered fowl, and chicken has started to return to local menus after four months without a report of the virus. But as experts from around the world gather in Mali for a conference opening Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006, on the ongoing battle against the avian infection, the status of bird flu remains uncertain in Nigeria and throughout the continent. (AP Photo/George Osodi) |
AP - Tue Dec 5, 8:39 AM ET A Nigerian boy watches birds in Birnin Yero Gari, near Jaji, Nigeria, Friday, Dec. 1, 2006. The farm in northern Nigeria where Africa's first case of a deadly bird flu strain was discovered has replaced its slaughtered fowl, and chicken has started to return to local menus after four months without a report of the virus. But as experts from around the world gather in Mali for a conference opening Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006, on the ongoing battle against the avian infection, the status of bird flu remains uncertain in Nigeria and throughout the continent. (AP Photo/George Osodi) |
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AP - Tue Dec 5, 8:43 AM ET A Nigerian boy watches a chicken enters his house in Birnin Yero Gari, near Jaji, Nigeria, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006. The farm in northern Nigeria where Africa's first case of a deadly bird flu strain was discovered has replaced its slaughtered fowl, and chicken has started to return to local menus after four months without a report of the virus. But as experts from around the world gather in Mali for a conference opening Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006, on the ongoing battle against the avian infection, the status of bird flu remains uncertain in Nigeria and throughout the continent. (AP Photo/George Osodi) |
AP - Tue Dec 5, 8:41 AM ET A Nigerian boy chases chickens in Birnin Yero Gari, near Jaji, Nigeria, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006. The farm in northern Nigeria where Africa's first case of a deadly bird flu strain was discovered has replaced its slaughtered fowl, and chicken has started to return to local menus after four months without a report of the virus. But as experts from around the world gather in Mali for a conference opening Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006, on the ongoing battle against the avian infection, the status of bird flu remains uncertain in Nigeria and throughout the continent. (AP Photo/George Osodi) |
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AP - Wed Dec 6, 9:32 AM ET A Malian boy bathes in the Niger River in Bamako, Mali Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006 as the BCEAO bank building, that issues currency for West Africa is seen in the background. Bird flu experts from across the globe gathered Wednesday in the West African nation to drum up an estimated US$1.5 billion (Euros 1.1 billion) the World Bank says will be needed to fight the disease worldwide over the next several years. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) |
AP - Wed Dec 6, 8:29 AM ET Chickens slated to be killed and skinned lie on the ground in an outdoor market in Bamako, Mali Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006. Bird flu experts from across the globe gathered Wednesday in the West African nation to drum up an estimated US$1.5 billion the World Bank says will be needed to fight the disease worldwide over the next several years. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) |
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Reuters - Wed Dec 6, 8:54 AM ET A doctor (L) vaccinates a volunteer against bird flu in Moscow, May 30, 2006. A vaccine against the killer H5N1 bird flu virus could be licensed for human use in a year, but when to use it is becoming a 'tricky issue', a senior World Health Organization official said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin |
AP - Wed Dec 6, 8:28 AM ET A chicken pokes its head out of a wooden cage in an outdoor market in Bamako, Mali Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006. Bird flu experts from across the globe gathered Wednesday in the West African nation to drum up an estimated US$1.5 billion the World Bank says will be needed to fight the disease worldwide over the next several years. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) |
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AP - Wed Dec 6, 8:48 AM ET A Malian man removes chickens from a cauldron of hot water, used to loosen the feathers ready for plucking, in an outdoor market in Bamako, Mali, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006. Bird flu experts from across the globe are gathering Wednesday in this West African nation to mobilize support, with an estimated US$1.5 billion (euro 1.1 billion) funding needed over the next several years to fight a deadly strain of bird flu experts fear could start a human pandemic, the World Bank says. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) |
AP - Wed Dec 6, 8:47 AM ET Women clean chickens to prepare them for a local hotel, in an outdoor market in Bamako, Mali Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006. Bird flu experts from across the globe are gathering Wednesday in this West African nation to mobilize support, with an estimated US$1.5 billion (euro 1.1 billion) funding needed over the next several years to fight a deadly strain of bird flu experts fear could start a human pandemic, the World Bank says. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) |
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Reuters - Wed Dec 6, 7:32 AM ET A man plucks a chicken at Dibida market in Mali's capital Bamako December 6, 2006. Experts fighting bird flu around the world met on Wednesday to replenish their war chest and plot the next stage of their campaign to control the disease and avert a devastating human flu pandemic. REUTERS/Alistair Thomson (MALI) |
Reuters - Wed Dec 6, 7:36 AM ET Poultry seller Tidiane Diarra stands with a bound Guinea fowl hanging round his neck at Dibida market in Mali's capital Bamako, December 6, 2006. Experts fighting bird flu around the world met on Wednesday to replenish their war chest and plot the next stage of their campaign to control the disease and avert a devastating human flu pandemic. REUTERS/Alistair Thomson (MALI) |
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AFP/File - Wed Dec 6, 8:02 AM ET An Egyptian zookeeper sprays disinfectant into duck cages at the Giza zoo in March 2006. Experts on bird flu were increasingly concerned for Africa as an international conference heard that three countries on the world's poorest continent continued to record outbreaks of the deadly disease.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki) |
AFP - Wed Dec 6, 2:27 PM ET Lecturers attend the opening day of the 4th Conference on Bird Flu in Bamako, Mali. Experts on bird flu were increasingly concerned for Africa as an international conference heard that three countries on the world's poorest continent continued to record outbreaks of the deadly disease.(AFP/Samba) |
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AFP/POOL/File - Wed Dec 6, 1:53 PM ET A scientists conducts tests. Biochemists in the United States believe they may have found the Achilles heel of the H5N1 virus -- and not just of the bird flu pathogen but of a wide range of other influenza strains.(AFP/POOL/File/Tim Ockenden) |
AP - Thu Dec 7, 4:17 AM ET Japan's Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa, center, speaks during a press conference following the 7th Global Health Security Initiative Ministerial Meeting in Tokyo,Thursday, Dec. 7, 2006. Participating officials said South Korea's recent bird flu outbreaks have highlighted the need for governments to have plans in place to deal with pandemic threats and pandemic preparedness remains a top priority for the informal information-sharing gatherings. Looking on are: Canada's Associate Deputy Health Minister Susan Cartwright, left, and U.S. Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Alex Azar II. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara) |
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AFP - Thu Dec 7, 9:44 AM ET The fourth international conference on bird flu in Bamako. Appeals for international solidarity, especially to help Africa fight the potentially deadly bird flu, have poured in at an international conference on the disease.(AFP/Samba N'Diaye) |
AFP/File - Thu Dec 7, 9:44 AM ET The United Nations bird flu coordinator, David Nabarro, speaks at the press briefing in Singapore in September 2006. Appeals for international solidarity, especially to help Africa fight the potentially deadly bird flu, have poured in at an international conference on the disease.(AFP/File/Roslan Rahman) |
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Reuters - Thu Dec 7, 7:22 AM ET A veterinarian takes a blood sample from a Magellan goose to test the effects of vaccination against bird flu at Zurich zoo December 7, 2006. Zurich Zoo is one of four Swiss zoological gardens participating in a research programme on the use of a vaccine against avian influenza in zoo birds many of which are rare and exotic. REUTERS/Andreas Meier (SWITZERLAND) |
Reuters - Thu Dec 7, 7:21 AM ET A veterinarian takes a blood sample from a Magellan goose to test the effects of vaccination against bird flu at Zurich zoo December 7, 2006. Zurich Zoo is one of four Swiss zoological gardens participating in a research programme on the use of a vaccine against avian influenza in zoo birds many of which are rare and exotic. REUTERS/Andreas Meier (SWITZERLAND) |
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Posted on Thu, Dec. 07, 2006 Courtesy photo - Oyster catchers Brunswick birding trail christened - N.C. Organizers hope path will draw revenue from tourism. By Jason M. Rodriguez The Sun News |
December 6, 2006 4:05 p.m. EST By Caleb Hellerman CNN Firdaus Baskara, 8, of suburban Jakarta, Indonesia, survived bird flu. He's believed to have contracted the illness from his aunt. |
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AP - Fri Dec 8, 6:46 AM ET A Chinese vendor looks after his live ducks at a poultry market in Nanjing, eastern China's Jiangsu province, on Nov. 10, 2006. Chinese and United Nations health officials ended four days of meetings on Friday, Dec. 8, 2006, to address confusion and anger over a recent research paper that said southern China was the source of a virulent new strain of bird flu. (AP Photo/EyePress) |
AP - Fri Dec 8, 7:26 AM ET Participants look on during a drill for the risk of bird flu inside a ferry in Hong Kong in this Nov. 1, 2006 file photo. Chinese and United Nations health officials ended four days of meetings in Beijing Friday, Dec. 8, 2006, to address confusion and anger over a recent research paper that said southern China was the source of a virulent new strain of bird flu. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File) |
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AFP/File - Fri Dec 8, 11:44 AM ET Sanitary workers carry dead poultry in plastic bags in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, May 2006. A system to compensate breeders forced to cull their flocks during bird flu outbreaks risks being abused by corrupt individuals, experts have warned.(AFP/File/Ouoba Ahmed) |
AFP/File - Fri Dec 8, 11:44 AM ET A Palestinian veterinary expert prepares to destroy a chicken in the West Bank town of Hebron, March 2006. A system to compensate breeders forced to cull their flocks during bird flu outbreaks risks being abused by corrupt individuals, experts have warned.(AFP/File/Hazem Bader) |
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AFP/File - Fri Dec 8, 2:29 PM ET Roosters play in a bird shop at the Kano Sabon Gari market in February 2006. International donors pledged 475 million dollars (359 million euros) towards the global war against bird flu, UN officials announced, wrapping up a three-day conference on the disease.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei) |
AFP - Fri Dec 8, 2:29 PM ET Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure talks during the fourth International Conference on Bird Flu in Bamako on 07 December 2006. International donors pledged 475 million dollars (359 million euros) towards the global war against bird flu, UN officials announced, wrapping up a three-day conference on the disease.(AFP/Samba) |
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Reuters - Fri Dec 8, 12:43 PM ET Poultry seller Tidiane Diarra stands with a bound Guinea fowl hanging round his neck at Dibida market in Mali's capital Bamako, December 6, 2006. Experts fighting bird flu around the world met on Wednesday to replenish their war chest and plot the next stage of their campaign to control the disease and avert a devastating human flu pandemic. REUTERS/Alistair Thomson |
AFP/File - Fri Dec 8, 2:48 PM ET Ducks are displayed at a market in Changsha, in the China's central province of Hunan in August 2006. The World Health Organization, which last month blasted China for not being transparent about its bird flu outbreak, said it was satisfied with Beijing's collaboration in fighting the disease.(AFP/File/Liu Jin) |
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C alkins Media Eric Poole David Myers from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture addresses an audience at the Ellwood City Hospital's Tree of Life Wellness Center about what would happen should the avian flu come to western Pennsylvania. |
Reuters - Sat Dec 9, 4:39 PM ET Congress approves bioterrorism preparedness bill . U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) is shown in this file photo. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) |
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Reuters - Sat Dec 9, 5:51 AM ET U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt (R) visits patients at a health centre in Suining, southwest China's Sichuan province December 9, 2006. A dispute between China and the authors of a paper on bird flu centres on the name of the strain identified, not its existence, scientists said on Friday, adding China's vaccination programmes were not to blame for the strain's emergence. REUTERS/China Daily |
Reuters - Sat Dec 9, 4:30 AM ET U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt (2nd L) and his wife (R) talk to a girl who recovered from bird flu as she presents her drawing as a gift to the couple in Suining, southwest China's Sichuan province December 9, 2006. A dispute between China and the authors of a paper on bird flu centres on the name of the strain identified, not its existence, scientists said on Friday, adding China's vaccination programmes were not to blame for the strain's emergence. REUTERS/Stringer |
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Reuters - Sat Dec 9, 4:06 AM ET U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt (R) shakes hands with a local during his visit in Suining, southwest China's Sichuan province December 9, 2006. A dispute between China and the authors of a paper on bird flu centres on the name of the strain identified, not its existence, scientists said on Friday, adding China's vaccination programmes were not to blame for the strain's emergence. REUTERS/Stringer |
Reuters - Sat Dec 9, 4:05 AM ET U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt (L) shakes hands with China's Vice Minister of Health Chen Xiaohong during his visit in Suining, southwest China's Sichuan province December 9, 2006. A dispute between China and the authors of a paper on bird flu centres on the name of the strain identified, not its existence, scientists said on Friday, adding China's vaccination programmes were not to blame for the strain's emergence.REUTERS/Stringer |
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AFP/File - Mon Dec 11, 2:58 AM ET Health officials in November conduct an investigation at a village in Iksan, south of Seoul. South Korea's agriculture ministry has reported another bird flu outbreak at a poultry farm in the country's southwest, the third in less than a month. Around 1,000 quails have died in the past four days at the farm in Gimjae, 260 kilometers (160 miles) southwest of Seoul, the ministry said.(AFP/File/Young-Hans Jeon) |
Reuters - Mon Dec 11, 3:17 AM ET Quarantine workers in protective gear enter a farm to spray disinfectant in Kimje, about 250 km (155 miles) south of Seoul, December 11, 2006. South Korea's agriculture ministry said on Monday it had found a third case of highly pathogenic bird flu in North Cholla province south of Seoul. |
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AP - Mon Dec 11, 2:00 AM ET South Korean health officials in protective suits spray disinfectant to a farm in Gimje, south of Seoul, Monday, Dec. 11, 2006. Thousands of quails have died of a 'highly pathogenic' bird flu at the farm south of Seoul that was very likely the deadly H5N1 strain, officials said Monday. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Choi Young-soo) |
Reuters - Mon Dec 11, 3:19 AM ET Quarantine workers spray disinfectant at a farm in Kimje, about 250 km (155 miles) south of Seoul, December 11, 2006. South Korea's agriculture ministry said on Monday it had found a third case of highly pathogenic bird flu in North Cholla province south of Seoul. |
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AP - Mon Dec 11, 12:56 PM ET An unidentified veterinarian, right, helped by a farm employee vaccinates ducks at a poultry farm in Horsarrieu, in France's southwestern Landes region, a leading foie gras producer, in this March 3, 2006, file photo. France's trade minister said Japan may loosen its ban on French poultry products, and urged other countries to relax import restrictions imposed after the lethal H5N1 bird flu strain was found in France. (AP Photo/Bob Edme/FILE) |
AP - Mon Dec 11, 12:52 PM ET A policeman takes aim to kill an ostrich suspected of having bird flu virus inside the Sambawa farms where the Nigerian first bird flu case was noticed in Jaji about 40km from Kaduna, Nigeria, in this Feb. 10, 2006, file photo. Nigerian poultry farmers said the government was not proposing enough compensation for those whose flocks have been hit by Africa's first known outbreak of a deadly bird flu strain. (AP Photo/George Osodi/FILE) |
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AP - Mon Dec 11, 11:04 PM ET South Korean pedestrians wait to eat free chicken during a campaign for the consumption of poultry, which has been affected due to concerns over bird flu, in Seoul, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2006. South Korea has started killing hundreds of thousands of poultry after a fresh outbreak of bird flu that was very likely the deadly H5N1 strain, officials said Tuesday.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) |
AP - Mon Dec 11, 10:58 PM ET South Korean pedestrians eat free chicken during a campaign for the consumption of poultry, which has been affected due to concerns of bird flu, in Seoul, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2006. South Korea has started killing hundreds of thousands of poultry after a fresh outbreak of bird flu that was very likely the deadly H5N1 strain, officials said Tuesday.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) |
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Pedestrians stand in a line to eat free chicken during a campaign to promote the safety of poultry consumption in Seoul December 12, 2006. South Korea will widen the scope of poultry culls around farms infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, the agriculture ministry said on Tuesday, as it battled its third outbreak in less than three weeks. |
Reuters - Tue Dec 12, 4:08 AM ET Quarantine workers in protective gears spray disinfectant onto a vehicle in Kimje, about 250 km (155 miles) south of Seoul, December 12, 2006. South Korea will widen the scope of poultry culls around farms infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, the agriculture ministry said on Tuesday, as it battled its third outbreak in less than three weeks. |
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AP - Tue Dec 12, 4:14 AM ET Health officials wearing protective suits prepare to slaughter at a poultry farm where the bird flu virus was found in Gimje, south of Seoul, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2006. South Korea has started killing hundreds of thousands of poultry after a fresh outbreak of bird flu that was very likely the deadly H5N1 strain, officials said Tuesday. .(AP Photo/Yonhap, Choi Young-soo) |
Reuters - Tue Dec 12, 7:26 AM ET A poultry seller unloads his ducks from a cage at Ha Vy wholesale market, 16 miles south of Hanoi, August 3, 2006. An expert who treated numerous bird flu victims in Vietnam has urged doctors not to lose hope with patients who are admitted late to hospital as there is still a good chance that they can survive. (Nguyen Huy Kham/Reuters) |
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AP - Wed Dec 13, 3:06 PM ET In this December 2006 photo provided by the Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game, Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game biologists look at a cluster of dead ducks discovered in Land Springs Creek, near Oakley, Idaho. State wildlife agencies and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006, were testing the tissue samples from more than 1,000 mallard ducks that are dying in a bizarre cluster along a southeastern Idaho creek bed, hoping to rule out an avian flu outbreak. (AP Photo/Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game) |
Fri, 15 Dec 2006 6:13 PM PST Report: Nation Not Ready for Health Emergencies. Reported by Weijia Jiang WBOC 16
Updated: 12/16/2006 4:16 PM A child receives a flu shot. (AP) Health officials prepare for influenza. By: Associated Press
Dec. 16, 2006, 5:48PM Residents enter a fire station in Bloomfield, N.J., to get a dose of flu vaccine Dec. 7. While the flu shots will protect them this year, the day was a drill for health officials, who were practicing to administer mass vaccinations in the event of a flu pandemic. Associated Press By LAURAN NEERGAARD . MIKE DERER: AP |
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Sat, 16 Dec 2006 0:59 AM PST Hunter Bill Bonniwell, of Harrington, unloads his kill at Little Creek, where workers will test the birds for the H5N1 strain of bird flu. By HIRAN RATNAYAKE, The News Journal |
Sat, 16 Dec 2006 0:59 AM PST Joyce McGee, an aid with DNREC, checks game for signs of the avian flu. |
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Reuters - Fri Dec 15, 2:02 AM ET PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2006 A dead swan is recovered from the river Mur at a hydroelectric power plant in Mellach in Austria's southern province of Styria February 15, 2006. Two swans found dead on this very spot on February 12 were infected with the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, an official at the government Agency for Health and Food Safety said. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader (AUSTRIA) |
Reuters - Fri Dec 15, 7:10 AM ET A chicken is seen during a bird flu preparedness exercise in Singapore October 4, 2006. A first-generation experimental bird flu vaccine for use in humans from GlaxoSmithKline Plc has won outline support from European regulators. (Nicky Loh/Reuters) |
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Reuters - Sat Dec 16, 6:37 AM ET A vendor transports ducks at a poultry wholesale market in Nanjing, eastern China's Jiangsu province December 16, 2006. Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu has urged concerned departments to strengthen bird flu prevention in the face of new cases reported in other countries, Xinhua News Agency reported. REUTERS/Leo Lang (CHINA) |
AFP/File - Sat Dec 16, 4:10 PM ET South Korean health officials prepare to cull and bury quails at a farm in Gimje, 260 kms (160 mi) southwest of Seoul on 12 December 2006. The two bird flu outbreaks reported last month in South Korea were caused by a strain of the virus that has not led to any human infection, a senior official said.(AFP/File/Park Yeong-Cheol) |
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Ray Wegner, left, gets a shot during the mass vaccination clinic exercise in Fairbanks in October. The state's pandemic plan outlines some basic steps, thanks to a 30-member working group from various state and federal agencies, municipalities, private industry, church-based groups and local organizations. |
Reuters - Mon Dec 18, 4:20 PM ET A general view shows chickens at a poultry farm in France February 23, 2006. Officials are carrying out tests to see what caused the deaths of some 4,000 chickens on a farm in northeastern France, but initial indications did not point to bird flu, the agriculture ministry said on Monday. (Franck Prevel/Reuters) |
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AFP/File - Tue Dec 19, 8:14 AM ET Chickens in a French farm in Nielles-Les-Calais in January 2006. The French agriculture ministry has said that bird flu is not responsible for the deaths of several thousand chickens on a farm in the east of the country.(AFP/File/Philippe Huguen) |
AFP/File - Tue Dec 19, 11:36 PM ET A motorcyclist rides past gooses looking for food on a dike in the suburbs of Hanoi. Authorities have detected an outbreak of bird flu in poultry in two provinces in the southern Mekong delta, after the deaths of several thousand birds(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) |
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Reuters - Wed Dec 20, 8:16 AM ET Ducks swim at a farm in Te Lo village, 65 kilometres (40 miles) outside Hanoi, December 20, 2006. Vietnam has detected the lethal H5N1 bird flu virus in chickens and ducklings in two Mekong Delta provinces, the country's first infections since August, the Agriculture Ministry said. REUTERS/Kham (VIETNAM) |
Reuters - Wed Dec 20, 8:16 AM ET A farmer feeds his ducks at a farm in Thanh Diem village, 40 kilometres (25 miles) outside Hanoi, December 20, 2006. Vietnam has detected the lethal H5N1 bird flu virus in chickens and ducklings in two Mekong Delta provinces, the country's first infections since August, the Agriculture Ministry said. REUTERS/Kham (VIETNAM) |
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Reuters - Tue Dec 19, 9:46 AM ET A woman, pushing a child in a stroller, stands in front of the ticketing booth at St. Petersburg's zoo December 19, 2006. The zoo closed after the deaths of two geese sparked a bird flu scare, but top sanitary officials said on Tuesday that tests had not confirmed the outbreak of the disease. The sign on the door reads 'Zoo Closed'. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk (RUSSIA) |
Reuters - Tue Dec 19, 5:26 AM ET A goose is seen through the fence at St. Petersburg's zoo December 19, 2006. The zoo closed after the deaths of two geese sparked a bird flu scare, but top sanitary officials said on Tuesday that tests had not confirmed the outbreak of the disease. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk (RUSSIA) |
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AFP/File - Thu Dec 21, 7:31 PM ET A doctor treats a patient who is under observation for the bird flu virus at a hospital in Jakarta, October 2005. A global pandemic of a novel, contagious and lethal form of influenza could kill as many people in a year as died in World War II, according to an estimate in a new study.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo) |
AP - Thu Dec 21, 11:15 PM ET Two traders carry cases of eggs at a market in Hanoi, Vietnam on Friday Dec. 22, 2006. Farmers trying to protect their poultry from being slaughtered may be unintentionally spreading bird flu in southern Vietnam, an animal health official warned Friday. Some 6,000 chickens and ducklings have died of the H5N1 bird flu strain in the past two weeks in Ca Mau and Bac Lieu provinces, in the first reported cases of the virus in Vietnam in a year. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh) |
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AP - Thu Dec 21, 11:16 PM ET Slaughtered chickens are on sale at a market in Hanoi, Vietnam Friday, Dec. 22, 2006. Farmers trying to protect their poultry from being slaughtered may be unintentionally spreading bird flu in southern Vietnam, an animal health official warned Friday. Some 6,000 chickens and ducklings have died of the H5N1 bird flu strain in the past two weeks in Ca Mau and Bac Lieu provinces, in the first reported cases of the virus in Vietnam in a year. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh) |
AFP - Fri Dec 22, 1:06 AM ET Poultry vendors carrying chickens run away from a vet officer who tried to confiscate their birds at a local market in the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh city. Authorities have announced that bird flu had spread in two provinces in the southern Mekong delta, where massive outbreaks were first reported early this week.(AFP/Hoang Dinh) |
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AP - Fri Dec 22, 1:06 AM ET Health official wearing protective suits carry a sack containing killed ducks after they were slaughtered at a duck farm where the bird flu virus was found in Asan, about 92 kilometers (57 miles) south of Seoul, Friday, Dec. 22, 2006. South Korea has started killing tens of thousands of poultry after a fourth bird flu case broke out in less than a month, officials said Friday.(AP Photo/Yonhap, Kim Joon-ho) |
AP - Fri Dec 22, 1:05 AM ET Health officials wearing protective suits carry a sack containing killed ducks after they were slaughtered at a duck farm where the bird flu virus was found in Asan, about 92 kilometers (57 miles) south of Seoul, Friday, Dec. 22, 2006. South Korea has started killing tens of thousands of poultry after a fourth bird flu case broke out in less than a month, officials said Friday.(AP Photo/Yonhap, Kim Joon-ho) |
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AFP/File - Thu Dec 21, 9:09 PM ET A spray gun sterlizes a quail farm in Gimje, 260 kilometers southwest of Seoul, on December 11 where South Korean health officials detected the bird flu virus for the third time in a month. Today, South Korea's agriculture ministry has confirmed a fourth case of bird flu at a duck farm in the southwest of the country.(AFP/File/Yeong-Cheol Park) |
AP - Fri Dec 22, 1:12 AM ET Health officials wearing protective suits arrive to slaughter at a duck farm where the bird flu virus was found in Asan, about 92 kilometers (57 miles) south of Seoul, Friday, Dec. 22, 2006. South Korea has started killing tens of thousands of poultry after a fourth bird flu case broke out in less than a month, officials said Friday.(AP Photo/Yonhap, Kim Joon-ho) |
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AP - Fri Dec 22, 2:42 AM ET Health official wearing protective suits look at sacks containing slaughtered ducks at a duck farm where the bird flu virus was found in Asan, about 92 kilometers (57 miles) south of Seoul, Friday, Dec. 22, 2006. South Korea has started killing tens of thousands of poultry after a fourth bird flu case broke out in less than a month, officials said Friday.(AP Photo/Yonhap, Kim Joon-ho) |
Reuters - Fri Dec 22, 1:54 AM ET Quarantine officials in protective gear carry sacks containing slaughtered ducks around a farm where the bird flu virus was found in Asan, south of Seoul, December 22, 2006. A fourth case of bird flu has been discovered in South Korea after culling of poultry from earlier cases, a government official said on Thursday, raising concerns that quarantine measures had failed to control the outbreak. |
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AFP/File - Thu Dec 21, 7:31 PM ET Indian railway workers prepare to paint an empty train station in the 'bird flu' affected village of Navapur, February 2006. A global pandemic of a novel, contagious and lethal form of influenza could kill as many people in a year as died in World War II, with particularly high mortality rates in India, according to an estimate in a new study.(AFP/File/Sebastian D'Souza) |
AP - Thu Dec 22, 11:13 PM ET Roasted and boiled ducks are seen on sale at a market in Hanoi, Vietnam on Friday Dec. 22, 2006. Farmers trying to protect their poultry from a cull may be unintentionally spreading bird flu in southern Vietnam, an animal health official warned Friday. Some 6,000 chickens and ducklings have died of the H5N1 bird flu strain in the past two weeks in Ca Mau and Bac Lieu provinces, in the first reported cases of the virus in Vietnam in a year. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh) |
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First-grader Michael Zaccone practicing coughing into his arm while learning about how to avoid spreading germs at Fallon Elementary School in Wayne. By JAMES YOO STAFF WRITER |
Alison Schwarting, North Dakota avian influenza coordinator, takes a throat swab from one of the Red River Zoo's mute swans in Fargo, N.D., recently. The testing is part of the North Dakota Agriculture Department's surveillance program to screen for avaian influenza. (AP Photo/Agweek Magazine, Kelly Stone) |
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AFP/File - Sun Dec 24, 5:17 AM ET Health official wearing protective suits carry a sack containing slaughtered ducks in Asan, December 22. South Korea has culled another 4,000 pigs and 2,000 poultry to prevent the spread of bird flu after four cases were confirmed in the country's southwest.(AFP/File/Kang Byung-Gi) |
AFP/File - Mon Dec 25, 11:23 AM ET An Egyptian zookeeper sprays disinfectant into duck cages at the Giza zoo in Cairo in March 2006. A 15-year-old girl has died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the second such death in as many days in Egypt.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki) |
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IRIN Mon, 25 Dec 2006 5:37 AM PST Avian flu in Egypt was first detected in birds in February 2006 and in humans a month later |
Reuters - Mon Dec 25, 12:10 PM ET Boys stand on top of a pile of slaughtered birds to be buried, after an outbreak of bird flu killed one woman and infected two others, in the Egyptian village of Hanout in the Nile Delta December 25, 2006. An Egyptian woman died of bird flu on Sunday, hours after tests confirmed she and two other members of her extended family had been suffering from the highly pathogenic virus, a World Health Organization official said. REUTERS/Nasser Nuri (EGYPT) |
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Reuters - Wed Dec 27, 9:50 AM ET A bulldozer covers slaughtered birds after an outbreak of bird flu killed one woman and infected two others in the Egyptian village of Hanout in the Nile Delta December 25, 2006. (Nasser Nuri/Reuters) |
Thu Dec 28, 3:18 PM ET An Egyptian man has died from the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, bringing to three the number of victims in less than a week amid stepped up efforts to contain a resurgence of the epidemic.(AFP/File) |
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AFP - Fri Dec 29, 5:21 AM ET An infant looks at pigeons fly around at a public park in Jakarta. Indonesia is aiming for zero human cases of bird flu next year as its strategy of poultry vaccination and increasing public awareness appears to be paying off.(AFP/Bay Ismoyo) by Nabiha Shahab |
AFP/File - Fri Dec 29, 5:21 AM ET A health official vaccinates chickens in Medan in June 2006. Indonesia is aiming for zero human cases of bird flu next year as its strategy of poultry vaccination and increasing public awareness appears to be paying off.(AFP/File/Rahmad ) |
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AFP/File - Fri Dec 29, 3:13 PM ET Poultry vendors at Tabligbo market, some 70 kms north of Lome, Togo, February 2006. Togo has destroyed more than 3,000 frozen chickens of suspect origin for fear of introducing the devastating bird-flu virus into the west African country, officials announced.(AFP/File/Emile Kouton) |
Dec. 20, 2006, 12:22PM These two, near Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in March 2005, were among just 220 whooping cranes that year. South Texas has 237 this year. RON HEFLIN: AP file |
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AFP/File - Sat Dec 30, 2:17 AM ET A man eats a chicken noodle soup for breakfast at a roadside restaurant in Hanoi. Vietnamese health workers are testing a family for bird flu after they suffered respiratory ailments that could be linked to eating a chicken that died on their farm, officials have said.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) |
AFP/File - Sun Dec 31, 4:46 PM ET A farmer puts duckies in a basket as she prepares to take them to a local market in Thanh Oai district, northern province of Ha Tay, August 2006. A Vietnamese family has tested negative for bird flu, a health official said, after their hospital admission with respiratory ailments had sparked fears of a resurgence in human infections.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) |
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The three-dimensional structure of influenza virus from electron tomography. The viruses are about 120 nanometers -- about one ten thousandth of a millimeter -- in diameter. |
