AFP/File - Thu Feb 1, 5:36 AM ET This picture released by the Okayama prefecture
government on 28 January shows a health official
disinfecting a poultry farm in Takahashi city, in western
Japan's Okayama prefecture, where 22 chickens died. Japan
has confirmed its fourth case of bird flu this year and
ordered the mass slaughter of 93,000 chickens, although
tests were underway to establish if it is the virulent H5N1
form.(AFP/File) (JAPAN) Reuters - Thu Feb 1, 8:23 AM ET A veterinary inspector sprays disinfectant on a truck
carrying chickens at a checkpoint in Bangkok February 1,
2007. Experts have called for closer study of less lethal
strains of the H5N1 bird flu virus because they might be
more likely candidates to spark an influenza pandemic.
(Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters) (BANGKOK) AFP - Thu Feb 1, 12:25 PM ET A woman sells chickens at a market in Lagos. Nigeria,
Africa's most-populous nation and one of the most corrupt,
would struggle to contain any major outbreak of bird flu,
observers have said following the first human death from the
disease.(AFP/Pius Utomi Ekpei) by Joel Olatunde Agoi
(NIGERIA) AP - Thu Feb 1, 3:23 AM ET Indonesian government officials confiscate pigeon chicks
during a door to door sweep for poultry in Jakarta,
Indonesia, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007. Indonesia claimed a major
victory in the fight against bird flu Thursday, saying the
heart of the capital had been cleared of backyard fowl and
that residents elsewhere were handing in chickens for
slaughter. AP Photo/Dita Alangkara (INDONESIA) Reuters - Thu Feb 1, 3:03 PM ET Chickens are seen at a farm in Baokang county of
Xiangfan, in central China's Hubei province, October 31,
2006. Bird flu poses as big a threat to the world as ever,
and people need to worry about it more, U.S. senators and
health leaders agreed on Wednesday. (Stringer
Shanghai/Reuters) (CHINA) Reuters - Fri Feb 2, 9:04 AM ET Nigerian veterinary officials place culled chickens into
plastic bags for burial at Adiya farm, in the northwestern
Nigerian state of Sokoto, where bird flu has been found,
January 12, 2007. (Farouk Umar/Reuters) (NIGERIA) Reuters - Sat Feb 3, 7:19 AM ET Police blockade the lane leading to an avian flu affected
poultry farm at Holton near Halesworth in eastern England
February 3, 2007. An outbreak of bird flu on a farm run by
Europe's biggest turkey manufacturer Bernard Matthews has
killed 2,500 birds, government officials said on Saturday.
REUTERS / Luke MacGregor (UK) Reuters - Sat Feb 3, 6:35 AM ET An avian flu-affected poultry farm is seen from behind a
police cordon at Holton near Halesworth in eastern England
February 3, 2007. REUTERS /Luke MacGregor (Reuters) (UK) AFP/Getty Images/File - Sat Feb 3, 6:28 AM ET A turkey roams at a poultry farm. The European Commission
has confirmed that the bird flu virus detected at a turkey
farm in Suffolk was the virulent H5N1 strain.(AFP/Getty
Images/File/Justin Sullivan) (UK) AP - Sat Feb 3, 10:19 AM ET Two workers wearing protective clothing stand at the
entrance of the Bernard Matthews turkey farm in Holton,
England Saturday Feb. 3, 2007. Authorities confirmed
Saturday the H5N1 bird flu virus has been detected on a
British poultry farm for the first time after 2,500 turkeys
died. Britain's Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer Fred Landeg
said all 159,000 turkeys would be culled on the farm in
Holton in Suffolk, about 130 miles (210 kilometers)
northeast of London, as a precaution and he expected the
outbreak to be contained. Bernard Matthews PLC, one of
Britain's largest turkey producers, confirmed it owned the
affected farm. The virus has been detected in only one of
the farm's 22 turkey sheds, Landberg said. (AP Photo/Max
Nash) (UK) AFP - Sat Feb 3, 8:33 AM ET Police cordon off the poultry farm in Holton. The
European Commission has confirmed that the bird flu virus
detected at the Suffolk turkey farm is the virulent H5N1
strain, which can be transmitted to humans.(AFP/Andrew
Stuart) (UK) AFP - Sat Feb 3, 8:33 AM ET The entrance to the Bernard Mathews food processing
factory is disinfected to prevent the transmission of avian
flu. The European Commission has confirmed that the bird flu
virus detected at the Suffolk turkey farm is the virulent
H5N1 strain, which can be transmitted to humans.(AFP/Andrew
Stuart) (UK) AFP - Sat Feb 3, 8:17 AM ET Suffolk Police cordon off a poultry farm in Holton in
Suffolk. The European Commission has confirmed that the bird
flu virus detected at a turkey farm in eastern England was
the virulent H5N1 strain, which can be transmitted to
humans.(AFP/Andrew Stuart) (UK) AP - Sat Feb 3, 11:41 AM ET Two workers wearing protective clothing stand at the
entrance of the Bernard Matthews turkey farm in Holton,
England Saturday Feb. 3, 2007. Authorities confirmed
Saturday the H5N1 bird flu virus has been detected on a
British poultry farm for the first time after 2,500 turkeys
died. Britain's Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer Fred Landeg
said all 159,000 turkeys would be culled on the farm in
Holton in Suffolk, about 130 miles (210 kilometers)
northeast of London, as a precaution and he expected the
outbreak to be contained. Bernard Matthews PLC, one of
Britain's largest turkey producers, confirmed it owned the
affected farm. The virus has been detected in only one of
the farm's 22 turkey sheds, Landberg said. (AP Photo/Max
Nash) (UK) AFP - Sat Feb 3, 11:43 AM ET Police cordon off the poultry farm in Holton. Britain has
recorded its first outbreak of potentially lethal H5N1 bird
flu in farmed poultry, but authorities said the threat was
contained and farmers insisted it was still "safe to
eat".(AFP/Andrew Stuart) (UK) AP - Sat Feb 3, 12:05 PM ET A seagull flies over the Bernard Matthews turkey farm in
Holton, England Saturday Feb. 3, 2007. Authorities confirmed
Saturday the H5N1 bird flu virus has been detected on a
British poultry farm for the first time after 2,500 turkeys
died. Britain's Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer Fred Landeg
said all 159,000 turkeys would be culled on the farm in
Holton in Suffolk, about 130 miles (210 kilometers)
northeast of London, as a precaution and he expected the
outbreak to be contained. Bernard Matthews PLC, one of
Britain's largest turkey producers, confirmed it owned the
affected farm. The virus has been detected in only one of
the farm's 22 turkey sheds, Landberg said. (AP Photo/Max
Nash) (UK) AP - Sat Feb 3, 2:12 PM ET Former British Minister John Gummer, and local member of
Parliament answers questions outside the Bernard Matthews
turkey farm in Holton, England Saturday Feb. 3, 2007. The
deadly strain of H5N1 bird flu has been found in some of the
160,000 turkeys at the farm. (AP Photo/Max Nash) (UK) Reuters - Sat Feb 3, 12:23 PM ET An aerial view shows police manning a cordon near the
avian flu affected poultry farm at Holton near Halesworth in
eastern England February 3, 2007. Efforts to contain the
first outbreak in Britain of the highly pathogenic H5N1
strain of bird flu in domestic poultry on Saturday are
underway after the virus was found at a farm run by Europe's
biggest turkey producer. REUTERS / Luke MacGregor (UK) Reuters - Sat Feb 3, 12:24 PM ET An aerial view shows a forklift truck moving equipment at
the avian flu affected poultry farm at Holton near
Halesworth in eastern England February 3, 2007. Efforts to
contain the first outbreak in Britain of the highly
pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu in domestic poultry on
Saturday are underway after the virus was found at a farm
run by Europe's biggest turkey producer. REUTERS / Luke
MacGregor (UK) Reuters - Sat Feb 3, 12:30 PM ET An aerial view shows a lorry being washed at the avian
flu affected poultry farm at Holton near Halesworth in
eastern England February 3, 2007. Efforts to contain the
first outbreak in Britain of the highly pathogenic H5N1
strain of bird flu in domestic poultry on Saturday are
underway after the virus was found at a farm run by Europe's
biggest turkey producer. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (UK) ) Reuters - Sat Feb 3, 12:49 PM ET An aerial view shows empty open-topped lorries at the
avian flu affected poultry farm at Holton near Halesworth in
eastern England February 3, 2007. Efforts to contain the
first outbreak in Britain of the highly pathogenic H5N1
strain of bird flu in domestic poultry on Saturday are
underway after the virus was found at a farm run by Europe's
biggest turkey producer. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (UK) Reuters - Sat Feb 3, 12:49 PM ET An aerial view shows empty open-topped lorries at the
avian flu affected poultry farm at Holton near Halesworth in
eastern England February 3, 2007. Efforts to contain the
first outbreak in Britain of the highly pathogenic H5N1
strain of bird flu in domestic poultry on Saturday are
underway after the virus was found at a farm run by Europe's
biggest turkey producer. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (UK) Reuters - Sat Feb 3, 1:03 PM ET An avian flu affected poultry farm is seen at Holton near
Halesworth in eastern England February 3, 2007. Efforts to
contain the first outbreak in Britain of the highly
pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu in domestic poultry on
Saturday are underway after the virus was found at a farm
run by Europe's biggest turkey producer. REUTERS / Luke
MacGregor (UK) AFP - Sun Feb 4, 1:10 AM ET A road sign marks the boundary of the village of Holton,
where Suffolk police have cordoned off a poultry farm where
160,000 chickens will be culled in Halesworth. Britain
recorded its first outbreak of potentially lethal H5N1 bird
flu in farmed poultry but authorities said the threat was
contained and farmers insisted it was still "safe to
eat".(AFP/Andrew Stuart) (UK) AFP - Sun Feb 4, 9:34 AM ET Guinea-fowl at a poultry farm in Mionnay, France. A World
Health Organisation spokesman has warned that European
nations must not be lulled into a false sense of security
about bird flu, following an outbreak among poultry in a
British farm.(AFP/Jack Guez) (FRANCE) AFP - Sun Feb 4, 2:17 PM ET A warning sign is displayed on a path leading towards the
Bernard Matthews factory farm in Holton, Suffolk. Britain
was forced to slaughter nearly 160,000 turkeys to contain
the country's first major outbreak of the potentially lethal
Asian strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus.(AFP/Leon Neal)
(UK) AFP - Sun Feb 4, 2:13 PM ET A dead bird is seen on the ground near warning signs on
the roads leading towards the Bernard Matthews factory farm
in Holton, Suffolk. Britain was forced to slaughter nearly
160,000 turkeys to contain the country's first major
outbreak of the potentially lethal Asian strain of the H5N1
bird flu virus.(AFP/Leon Neal) (UK) AFP - Sun Feb 4, 9:45 AM ET A man in protective clothing works in one of the
buildings at the Bernard Matthews turkey farm in Holton.
Ireland is on alert following the outbreak of H5N1 bird flu
on a poultry farm in eastern England, Agriculture Minister
Mary Coughlan has said.(AFP/Leon Neal) (UK) AP - Sun Feb 4, 9:49 AM ET A man in a protective white suit walks from a container,
at at a turkey farm in Holton, England, where authorities
are culling many thousands of turkeys in response to a
confirmed outbreak of bird flu, Sunday Feb. 4, 2007. Health
officials on Sunday announced new restrictions on movement
near a commercial farm where the deadly H5N1 strain of bird
flu was found in turkeys, while authorities culled thousands
of birds to contain the outbreak. (AP Photo / Lewis Whyld,
PA (UK) AFP/File - Mon Feb 5, 4:48 AM ET A woman chops chicken for a customer at her stall inside
a traditional market in Jakarta in January 2007. The UN
official heading the global fight against avian influenza
has said Indonesia faces a serious problem from bird flu,
which is now endemic in poultry across much of the
country.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad) (INDONESIA) Reuters - Mon Feb 5, 4:57 AM ET A security guard smokes at the entrance to an
incineration plant in Cheddleton, central England, February
5, 2007. Officials were investigating the cause of a deadly
bird flu outbreak on a farm in Suffolk on Monday as workers
culled thousands of turkeys to prevent the virus from
spreading. REUTERS/Darren Staples (UK) AFP - Mon Feb 5, 4:58 AM ET Seagulls fly over the main factory building at the
Bernard Matthews turkey farm in Holton, Suffolk. Nearly
160,000 turkeys have been slaughtered to contain the
country's first major outbreak of the potentially lethal
Asian strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus.(AFP/Leon Neal)
(UK) AFP - Mon Feb 5, 4:58 AM ET Government vets work on the Bernard Matthews factory farm
in Holton, Suffolk. Nearly 160,000 turkeys have been
slaughtered to contain the country's first major outbreak of
the potentially lethal Asian strain of the H5N1 bird flu
virus.(AFP/Leon Neal) (UK) ) AFP - Mon Feb 5, 4:58 AM ET A government vet works at the Bernard Matthews factory
farm in Holton, Suffolk. Nearly 160,000 turkeys have been
slaughtered in an attempt to contain the country's first
major outbreak of the potentially lethal Asian strain of the
H5N1 bird flu virus.(AFP/Leon Neal) (UK) Reuters - Mon Feb 5, 5:25 AM ET Smoke rises from an incineration plant in Cheddleton,
central England, February 5, 2007. Officials were
investigating the cause of a deadly bird flu outbreak on a
farm in Suffolk on Monday as workers culled thousands of
turkeys to prevent the virus from spreading. REUTERS/Darren
Staples (UK) AFP - Mon Feb 5, 10:13 AM ET Smoke billows from a chimney at the John Pointon &
Sons incineration factory in Cheddleton. Turkeys from the
bird flu-infested farm in Suffolk are burnt in
Staffordshire.(AFP/Paul Ellis) (UK) Reuters - Mon Feb 5, 9:53 AM ET An avian flu-affected poultry farm is seen from behind a
police cordon at Holton near Halesworth in eastern England
February 3, 2007. REUTERS /Luke MacGregor (Reuters)
(ENGLAND) AP - Mon Feb 5, 9:35 AM ET An unidentified person wearing protective clothing uses a
foot dip after leaving a shed in the Bernard Matthews turkey
farm in Holton, England, Monday Feb. 5, 2007. About 2,500
turkeys died of H5N1 strain of bird flu on the farm owned by
Bernard Matthews PLC, Europe's largest turkey producer. It
was the first time H5N1 had been found on a British farm.
All 159,000 turkeys at the farm were ordered to be
slaughtered. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) (ENGLAND) AFP - Mon Feb 5, 6:41 PM ET A forklift drives past a health and safety sign at the
John Pointon & Sons Incineration factory in Cheddleton,
Staffordshire, in north-west England. Britain finished
slaughtering about 160,000 turkeys on Monday as it hoped to
contain its worst bird flu outbreak, but was slapped with
poultry import bans by Japan, Russia and Ukraine.(AFP/Paul
Ellis) (UK) AFP - Mon Feb 5, 10:13 AM ET An lorry leaves the Bernard Matthews farm in Holton
leaves for an incineration plant in Staffordshire. Turkeys
from the bird flu-infested farm in Suffolk are burnt in
Staffordshire.(AFP/Leon Neal) (UK) AP - Mon Feb 5, 9:21 AM ET A worker wearing a protective mask and clothing opens the
door of a tractor on the Bernard Matthews turkey farm in
Holton, England, Monday Feb. 5, 2007. An outbreak of bird
flu on a big English turkey farm should pose no risk to the
public or to the poultry industry, a government minister
said Monday as investigators continued trying to identify
the source of the infection. About 2,500 turkeys died of
H5N1 strain of bird flu on the farm owned by Bernard
Matthews PLC, Europe's largest turkey producer. It was the
first time H5N1 had been found on a British farm. All
159,000 turkeys at the farm, 100 miles (160 kilometers)
northeast of London, were ordered to be slaughtered (AP
Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) (UK) Reuters - Mon Feb 5, 4:42 PM ET People wearing protective suits and masks unload bags
from a van at a poultry farm hit by avian flu near
Halesworth in eastern England, February 5, 2007. REUTERS
/Luke MacGregor (Reuters) (UK) AP - Mon Feb 5, 3:05 PM ET An unidentified person wearing full protective clothing
leaves a shed at the Bernard Matthews turkey farm in Holton,
England, Monday Feb. 5, 2007. After the deadly strain of
H5N1 bird flu was identified, all the 160,000 turkeys on the
farm are being destroyed in an attempt to stop the spread of
the virus. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) (UK) Reuters - Tue Feb 6, 3:16 AM ET A man arrives for work as smoke rises from John Pointon
and Sons incineration plant in Cheddleton, February 5, 2007.
(Darren Staples/Reuters) By Luke MacGregor (UK) AFP - Tue Feb 6, 11:44 AM ET Government vets work around the contaminated sheds at the
Bernard Matthews turkey farm in Suffolk, England, on 5
February. The European Commission has urged members states
to keep up their guard against bird flu as experts reviewed
the bloc's defences against further outbreaks after a case
in Britain.(AFP/Leon Neal) (UK) AFP/File - Wed Feb 7, 4:25 AM ET A government vet cycles between the contaminated sheds at
the Bernard Matthews factory farm in Holton, Suffolk. A vet
reportedly involved in clearing up at the farm after the
potentially deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was detected has
tested negative for the disease.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)
(UK) Wed, 07 Feb 2007 4:29 PM PST By Kirsty Wigglesworth,
AP A worker performs a bird flu-related cleanup operation at
the Bernard Matthews turkey farm in Holton, England, on
Tuesday. (UK) AFP/File - Tue Feb 6, 10:01 AM ET An Egyptian health official, wearing a protective suit,
disinfects the house of a suspected bird flu victim in
Al-Abiyat, March 2005. A teenage girl has become the fifth
Egyptian to die of bird flu in six weeks, a health official
has said, amid fears of a global surge in infections by the
deadly virus.(AFP/File) (EGYPT) AFP/HO/File - Thu Feb 8, 8:01 AM ET A photo released by the Okayama prefecture government
shows a health official entering a poultry house to put down
the birds at a chicken farm in Takahashi city in January
2007. The Japanese government has ordered thousands of farms
to disinfect after a series of outbreaks of bird
flu.(AFP/HO/File) (JAPAN) AFP/File - Thu Feb 8, 5:21 AM ET A pigeon rests on a street lamp in the Turkish-occupied
northern part of Nicosia. Cypriot authorities have said that
a German tourist suspected of contracting bird flu does not
have the deadly virus, after results from Greece proved
negative.(AFP/File) AFP/File - Thu Feb 8, 10:27 AM ET Cat are seen at an animal shelter in Lyon, France in
March 2006. The UN food agency has advised keeping cats away
from birds infected by the deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu
as a precautionary measure, even though "no scientific
evidence" exists of transmission from cats to
humans.(AFP/File/Jean Philippe Ksiazek) (FRANCE) AFP/File - Wed Feb 7, 11:02 AM ET A woman checks cats before buying them from a street side
pet stall in Jakarta in 2005. The US embassy warned its
citizens to avoid cats in Indonesia following reports that
they may carry the deadly H5N1 bird flu
virus.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad) (INDONESIA) AFP/File - Thu Feb 8, 12:48 PM ET Poultry in a garden in
the Safak district in Turkey in January 2006. Bird flu has
been detected among poultry in a village in the southeastern
Turkish province of Batman, with experts still examining
whether it is the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain.(AFP/File/
Mustafa Ozer) (TURKEY) AFP/File - Fri Feb 9, 10:01 AM ET A government vet cycles between the contaminated sheds at
the Bernard Matthews factory farm in Holton, Suffolk, 5
February. Signs were growing that an outbreak of lethal H5N1
bird flu in Britain arrived from Hungary, despite previous
denials by a European poultry baron of a link between his
plants in the two countries.(AFP/File/Leon Neal) (UK) AFP/File - Fri Feb 9, 5:49 AM ET Employees of the Turkish agriculture ministry collect
poultry for destruction in the Bostanici district of Van,
January 2006. Turkish authorities are testing four children
for bird flu in a southeastern village where the virus has
already infected the poultry, the agriculture ministry has
said.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer) (TURKEY) Reuters - Fri Feb 9, 9:28 AM ET Turkish health officials carry bags of poultry after
collecting them from residents in the village of Bogazkoy,
85 km (53 miles) from the southeastern province of Batman,
February 9, 2007. A fourth child with flu-like symptoms has
been taken to hospital for observation after chickens died
of bird flu in a village in southeastern Turkey, local
officials said on Friday. Turkey confirmed an outbreak of
bird flu in the impoverished province of Batman on Thursday,
a year after the H5N1 strain of the disease killed four
children in the region. REUTERS/Stringer (TURKEY) Reuters - Fri Feb 9, 7:54 AM ET Turkish health officials wearing protective suits walk
through the village of Bogazkoy, 85 km (53 miles) from the
southeastern province of Batman, February 9, 2007. A fourth
child with flu-like symptoms has been taken to hospital for
observation after chickens died of bird flu in a village in
southeastern Turkey, local officials said on Friday. Turkey
confirmed an outbreak of bird flu in the impoverished
province of Batman on Thursday, a year after the H5N1 strain
of the disease killed four children in the region.
REUTERS/Fatih Saribas (TURKEY) AP - Fri Feb 9, 8:10 AM ET A Bernard Matthews truck is sprayed with disinfectant
before entering the Bernard Matthews Processing Plant at
Great Witchingham, England, Friday Feb. 9, 2007. The
investigation into the outbreak of bird flu, is being
focused on claims that the virus was brought into Britain
from a food processing plant in Hungary. Britain's
government chief scientist Professor Sir David King said new
data had revealed the H5N1 virus at the Bernard Matthews
turkey farm at Holton was identical to the strain involved
in the Hungarian outbreak last month. (AP Photo/Chris
Radburn-pa) (UK) Reuters - Fri Feb 9, 8:59 AM ET A feral chicken is seen at what is known locally as
'Chicken Roundabout' in Ditchingham, approximately 10 miles
(16 km) from the Suffolk farm where the deadly H5N1 strain
of bird flu broke out in Holton, eastern England February 6,
2007. British health authorities said on Friday they were
investigating whether meat contaminated with bird flu had
reached shops, but stressed there was no threat to
consumers. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (UK) Reuters - Fri Feb 9, 9:17 AM ET Armed village guards look at health officials in the
quarantined village of Bogazkoy, 85 km (53 miles) from the
southeastern province of Batman, February 9, 2007. A fourth
child with flu-like symptoms has been taken to hospital for
observation after chickens died of bird flu in a village in
southeastern Turkey, local officials said on Friday. Turkey
confirmed an outbreak of bird flu in the impoverished
province of Batman on Thursday, a year after the H5N1 strain
of the disease killed four children in the region.
REUTERS/Fatih Saribas (TURKEY) Reuters - Fri Feb 9, 9:34 AM ET REFILE- CORRECTING BYLINE A minibus travels past a check
point as soldiers stand on an armoured personnel carrier
outside the village of Bogazkoy, 85 km (53 miles) from the
southeastern province of Batman, February 9, 2007. A fourth
child with flu-like symptoms has been taken to hospital for
observation after chickens died of bird flu in a village in
southeastern Turkey, local officials said on Friday. Turkey
confirmed an outbreak of bird flu in the impoverished
province of Batman on Thursday, a year after the H5N1 strain
of the disease killed four children in the region.
REUTERS/Stringer (TURKEY) AP - Fri Feb 9, 9:42 AM ET A sign reading: 'There is bird flu in this village' is
seen at the entrance to the quarantined village of Bogazkoy
near the southeastern city of Batman, Turkey, Friday, Feb.
9, 2007. Authorities in southeastern Turkey have
hospitalized a fourth child who reportedly had contact with
sick fowl, as a precautionary measure against bird flu. The
four, between the ages of 1 1/2 and 16 and suffering from
symptoms of flu, are from the village of Bogazkoy where 170
birds died of bird flu, the Agriculture Ministry said. (AP
Photo/IHA, Ihlas News Agency) (TURKEY) Reuters - Fri Feb 9, 9:29 AM ET Turkish health officials pile up bags of poultry after
collecting them from residents in the village of Bogazkoy,
85 km (53 miles) from the southeastern province of Batman,
February 9, 2007. A fourth child with flu-like symptoms has
been taken to hospital for observation after chickens died
of bird flu in a village in southeastern Turkey, local
officials said on Friday. Turkey confirmed an outbreak of
bird flu in the impoverished province of Batman on Thursday,
a year after the H5N1 strain of the disease killed four
children in the region. REUTERS/Stringer (TURKEY) Reuters - Fri Feb 9, 9:35 AM ET Turkish health officials talks with residents as the
horses graze in the village of Bogazkoy, 85 km (53 miles)
from the southeastern province of Batman, February 9, 2007.
A fourth child with flu-like symptoms has been taken to
hospital for observation after chickens died of bird flu in
a village in southeastern Turkey, local officials said on
Friday. Turkey confirmed an outbreak of bird flu in the
impoverished province of Batman on Thursday, a year after
the H5N1 strain of the disease killed four children in the
region. REUTERS/Fatih Saribas (TURKEY) AFP/File - Thu Feb 8, 10:29 AM ET Chickens at a poultry farm. Finland has ordered all
poultry to be kept indoors from March until the end of May
for the second year in a row in a bid to prevent an outbreak
of bird flu as birds begin their migration back to
Europe.(AFP/File/Georges Gobet) (FINLAND) Reuters - Fri Feb 9, 5:57 AM ET Workers return to the avian-flu affected poultry farm at
Holton near Halesworth in eastern England February 6, 2007.
REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (UK) AFP/File - Sat Feb 10, 3:33 PM ET Government vets in protective clothing work around the
contaminated sheds at the Bernard Matthews factory farm in
Holton, Suffolk, 05 February 2007. British farmers' leaders
mooted a possible ban on imports of raw poultry from
countries hit by the virulent H5N1 bird flu strain as
authorities probed a Hungarian link to the
outbreak.(AFP/File/Leon Neal) (UK) AFP/File - Fri Feb 9, 4:02 PM ET A bird stretches out from a cage in search of food in a
Lagos fowl market 06 February 2007. Bird flu has reappeared,
after an eight-month lull, on poultry farms in a fourth
state in northern Nigeria.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi (NIGERIA) AFP/File - Fri Feb 9, 11:15 PM ET South Korean health officials carry samples of bird flu
infected chickens. Bird flu has spread to a sixth farm in
South Korea, despite government efforts to contain the
deadly virus by culling more than two million birds,
officials have said. A new outbreak has been discovered at a
farm near the capital Seoul with some 133,000 chickens, the
agriculture ministry said.(AFP/File/Young-Han Jeon (SOUTH
KOREA) Reuters - Sat Feb 10, 3:08 AM ET Health officers walk into a village where a bird flu case
occurred at a poultry farm in Ansong, 66 km (41 miles) south
of Seoul February 10, 2007. (Kang
Jong-min/Newsis/Reuters) Underlining findings by the United Nations that this
season's wave of the virus came mostly from reared rather
than migratory birds. "We suspect that one of the reasons for the current
spread has more to do with trade in live birds than to do
with the movement of the virus through wild birds." (SOUTH
KOREA) Reuters - Sat Feb 10, 1:56 AM ET Women sell geese at an open air market in Luxor February
6, 2007. Bird flu, transmitted last season by migrating wild
birds, is increasingly spread through the poultry trade, a
U.N. expert said. (Stringer/Reuters) (EGYPT) AFP/File - Sat Feb 10, 9:18 AM ET Tourists take pictures at a bird market in Hong Kong,
January 2007. Tests on a blue magpie found dead in Hong Kong
have shown it was infected with the deadly H5N1 bird flu
virus, the government said.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke) (HONG
KONG) Saturday, 10 February 2007, 09:39 GMT A cull of 160,000 birds was carried out in Suffolk, UK,
last week. Hungary denies UK bird flu link (ENGLAND) AFP/File - Sat Feb 10, 3:26 PM ET Pakistani poultry workers feed chickens at a poultry farm
on the outskirts of Islamabad in April 2006. Pakistan
confirmed its third case of bird flu in a week after three
turkeys in Islamabad died of the H5N1 strain potentially
deadly to humans.(AFP/File/Aamir Qureshi) (PAKISTAN) AFP/File - Sun Feb 11, 1:34 PM ET Traders at Onipanu poultry market in Lagos, 01 February
2007. The risk of the H5N1 virus transferring from animals
to humans in Nigeria has not increased since a woman died
last month in the first fatality in west Africa from bird
flu, a UN official has said.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)
(NIGERIA) AFP/File - Sun Feb 11, 3:40 AM ET A cage of pigeons at a market in Denpasar, on Bali
island. A 20-year-old woman in Indonesia who was declared
earlier as having contracted the bird flu virus, died later
in the day, becoming the country's 64th human casualty of
the disease.(AFP/File/Sonny Tumbelaka) AFP/File - Sun Feb 11, 8:21 AM ET Seagulls fly over the main factory building at the
Bernard Matthews turkey farm in Holton, Suffolk, 4 February
2007. The British government has defended a decision to
allow imported turkey meat from Hungary, despite speculation
linking a recent outbreak of H5N1 bird flu with the east
European country.(AFP/File/Leon Neal) (ENGLAND) AFP/File - Sun Feb 11, 8:23 AM ET Graphic showing the location of a bird flu outbreak in
Suffolk. The British government has defended a decision to
allow imported turkey meat from Hungary, despite speculation
linking a recent outbreak of H5N1 bird flu with the east
European country.(AFP/File) AFP/File - Mon Feb 12, 8:28 AM ET Government vets in protective clothing work around the
contaminated sheds at the Bernard Matthews factory farm in
Holton, Suffolk, 5 February. The government has insisted
that cooked meat exported from the Holton plant in the east
of the country was safe for humans to eat, as vets awaited
results of tests on the products.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)
(ENGLAND) Reuters - Mon Feb 12, 8:23 AM ET A Bird Flu Control Measure sign is seen near Halesworth
in eastern England February 4, 2007. Ninety percent of the
people infected with bird flu have been under the age of 40,
and 60 percent of them have died, according to the latest
analysis from the World Health Organization. REUTERS / Luke
MacGregor (ENGLAND) Reuters - Mon Feb 12, 9:05 AM ET An avian flu affected poultry farm is seen at Holton,
eastern England in this February 3, 2007 file photo. British
agriculture officials were investigating reports on Monday
that turkey meat imported from Hungary was processed near a
British farm which was contaminated by bird flu and then
exported back to Hungary. REUTERS / Luke MacGregor
(ENGLAND) AFP/File - Mon Feb 12, 1:03 PM ET Packaged chickens are displayed in a supermarket in Rots,
France, in 2006. The European Commission said there was "no
evidence" that EU rules to prevent the spread of bird flu
had been broken as vets looked into possible links between
outbreaks in Britain and Hungary.(AFP/File/Mychele Daniau)
(FRANCE) AFP/File - Mon Feb 12, 10:01 AM ET Employees of the Turkish agriculture ministry collect
poultry for destruction in the Bostanici district of Van,
January 2006. Four more villages in southeastern Turkey have
been quarantined over bird flu fears after the presence of
the potentially lethal H5N1 virus was confirmed last week in
the region.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer) (TURKEY) AFP/File - Mon Feb 12, 4:54 PM ET A government vet works at the Bernard Matthews factory
farm in Holton, England, 04 February 2007. British
scientists approved the re-opening of a slaughterhouse on a
site hit by an outbreak of virulent bird flu, but admitted
the virus could have already entered the human food
chain.(AFP/File/Leon Neal) (ENGLAND) Reuters - Mon Feb 12, 8:44 PM ET Turkish health officials pile up bags of poultry after
collecting them from residents in the village of Bogazkoy,
February 9, 2007. Turkey confirmed an outbreak of bird flu
in the impoverished province of Batman on Thursday, a year
after the H5N1 strain of the disease killed four children in
the region. A recent study found that mice inoculated with a
human virus known as H1N1 were less likely to die when they
were infected with a little bit of H5N1. (Stringer/Reuters)
(TURKEY) AFP/Getty Images/File - Mon Feb 12, 7:03 PM ET A nurse prepares a flu shot, October 2006. Immunity to
seasonal, garden-variety flu viruses may offer some
protection from bird flu, which scientists fear could one
day become epidemic, a new study suggests.(AFP/Getty
Images/File/Tim Boyle) AFP/File - Tue Feb 13, 4:10 AM ET An aquatic bird dives to catch fish in a river in Manila,
Janauary 2007. Government experts are closely monitoring
migratory birds in wetlands across the bird flu-free
Philippines for signs of the virus.(AFP/File/Joel Nito)
(PHILIPPINES) AFP/File - Tue Feb 13, 5:28 AM ET Government vets in protective clothing work around the
contaminated sheds at the Bernard Matthews factory farm in
Holton, Suffolk, 5 February. A turkey processing plant
closed due to an outbreak of potentially lethal bird flu has
reopened, despite mystery over the source of the
disease.(AFP/File/Leon Neal) (ENGLAND) AFP/File - Tue Feb 13, 6:06 AM ET A man feeds chickens at a poultry farm in Hanoi in August
2006. Vietnam has declared a winter spate of bird flu
outbreaks among poultry in the country's south had been
contained, but urged vigilance during upcoming Tet Lunar New
Year celebrations.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) (VIETNAM) AFP/File - Tue Feb 13, 1:02 PM ET An Egyptian man stands next to poultry at Bab Omar Basha
market in downtown Alexandria in February 2006. Egypt plans
to repay in kind farmers whose birds are culled in areas
affected by bird flu, following the failure of a previous
financial compensation scheme, a health ministry official
said.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki) (EGYPT) AFP/INA/File - Tue Feb 13, 2:17 PM ET This photo released by the Ilhas News Agency shows
officials collecting poultry for destruction in the Bogazkoy
village, in the mainly Kurdish province of Batman, 09
February 2007. Bird flu has been detected among poultry in a
third village in southeastern Turkey after the presence of
the potentially H5N1 virus was confirmed last week in the
region, a local official said.(AFP/INA/File) (TURKEY) AFP/File - Tue Feb 13, 4:27 PM ET Seagulls fly over the main factory building at the
Bernard Matthews turkey farm in Holton, 04 January 2007. A
British turkey processing plant which was closed due to an
outbreak of potentially lethal bird flu reopened, despite
continuing mystery over the source of the
disease.(AFP/File/Leon Neal) (ENGLAND) Viet Nam News Wed, 14 Feb 2007 3:53 AM PST The staff of veterinary clinics vaccinate chicken at Hung
Dong Commune, Vinh city, the central province of Nghe An. -
VNA/VNS AFP/File - Wed Feb 14, 7:00 AM ET A hen vendor waits for customers in Dhaka in November
2005. Bird flu experts are part of a team investigating the
unexplained death of three people in northern
Bangladesh.(AFP/File/Farjana K. Godhuly) Wed, 14 Feb 2007 5:34 AM PST Reuters Women sell geese at an open air market in Luxor, Egypt,
earlier this month. In Egypt, women and girls tend to look
after chickens and turkeys kept in backyards, making them
more vulnerable to avian flu. (EGYPT) Reuters - Wed Feb 14, 10:58 AM ET A turkey is seen at a slaughter house in Dabas, 35 km (22
miles) south of Budapest, February 13, 2007. Recent
outbreaks of bird flu in Britain and Hungary, and any link
between the two, give no reason to alter European Union laws
that aim to contain and control the disease, the EU's
executive arm said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh
(UK) AFP/File - Wed Feb 14, 8:01 AM ET Egyptian man stands next to turkeys at a market in
Alexandria in February 2006. Egypt has announced that a
woman had been infected with the deadly bird flu virus, the
21st case since the disease first appeared in the
country.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki) (EGYPT) Reuters - Wed Feb 14, 5:11 PM ET A man sits in front of chicken in a market in Cairo,
February 14 2007. A 37 year old Egyptian woman has tested
positive for the deadly bird flu virus, bringing the number
of confirmed cases in Egypt to 21, a World Health
Organization official said today. REUTERS/Nasser Nuri
(EGYPT) AFP/File - Wed Feb 14, 11:04 PM ET A Government vet disinfects his boots outside a
contaminated shed at the Bernard Matthews' factory farm in
Holton, Suffolk. Matthews, the head of the turkey-producing
firm that bears his name, has said that the recent outbreak
of a potentialy deadly strain of avian flu at his company's
farm was not their fault.(AFP/File/Leon Neal) (ENGLAND) Bernard Matthews holding turkey Animal rights protest targets turkey plant Bird flu backlash against Bernard Matthews (ENGLAND) AFP/File - Thu Feb 15, 10:22 AM ET Poultry in a garden in the Safak district in Turkey in
January 2006. Turkish authorities are testing a woman for
bird flu in southeastern Turkey where the highly pathogenic
H5N1 virus resurfaced last week in poultry, a hospital
official has said.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer) (TURKEY) AFP/Interpress/File - Thu Feb 15, 8:03 AM ET A chicken is vaccinated for avian flu outside St.
Petersburg, April 2006. Russian authorities have given
lethal injections to dozens of budgerigars found near the
border with Kazakhstan because of fears of the bird flu
virus, a state veterinary official has told
AFP.(AFP/Interpress/File/Alexander Drozdov) (RUSSIA) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tests on nearly 75,000 wild ducks,
gulls and other birds have turned up no sign of dangerous
H5N1 avian influenza in the United States, a federal agency
said on Thursday. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Geological
Survey work with federal, state and local partners to
monitor and test migratory birds in a comprehensive program
that will provide an early warning to the agriculture,
public health, and wildlife communities if migratory birds
are found infected with the Asian strain of H5N1 or other
highly pathogenic avian influenza. (USA) AFP - Thu Feb 15, 3:04 PM ET London's Mayor Ken Livingstone (C) is joined by Chelsea's
Frank Lampard (L) and Shanghai's Wang Dalei from the world
of football to turn on the huge Chinese lanterns at Oxford
Circus to mark the launch of "China in London," a month long
celebration of Chinese culture in the capital.(AFP)
(LONDON) Reuters - Thu Feb 15, 9:07 PM ET A member of a local Chinese dance troop performs at an
office building during Lunar New Year celebrations in Makati
City, Manila February 16, 2007. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside
(PHILIPPINES) AP - Thu Feb 15, 4:16 PM ET In this photo provided by the San Francisco Zoo, Kai, a
rare Kunekune pig, looks into the camera lens Thursday, Feb.
15, 2007, at the San Francisco Zoo in San Francisco. Kai and
another Kunukune pig are being spotlighted during this
year's Lunar New Year- Year of the Pig - celebration at the
zoo. The San Francisco Zoo will commemorate Chinese New Year
on Sunday, Feb. 18. (AP Photo/San Francisco Zoo, George
Nikitin) (USA) Reuters.co.uk Thu, 15 Feb 2007 6:54 PM PST Packages of Bernard Matthews turkey ham are seen in a
London supermarket February 10, 2007. Sales at Bernard
Matthews, the poultry firm at the heart of the bird flu
scare, has suffered a 40 percent drop in sales, BBC News
reported on its Web site on Thursday. REUTERS/Alessia
Pierdomenico (LONDON) AFP/File - Fri Feb 16, 4:50 AM ET A Bangladeshi bird vendor sells parrots on a street in
Dhaka, December 2005. A probe into the unexplained death of
three people in northwestern Bangladesh has ruled out bird
flu as the cause, an official has said, although the deaths
remain a mystery.(AFP/File/Farjana K. Godhuly) AFP/File - Fri Feb 16, 7:28 AM ET A health worker wears protective gears as he sprays
disinfectant at a bird market in Denpasar, on Bali island,
January 2007. A Swiss institute will shortly launch the
world's first global, publicly-accessible database on
strains of the H5N1 avian influenza virus, a virologist has
said.(AFP/File/Sonny Tumbelaka) AFP/File - Fri Feb 16, 10:03 AM ET Employees of the Turkish agriculture ministry collect
poultry for destruction in the Bostanici district of Van,
January 2006. A second person has been hospitalised in
Turkey with suspected bird flu as authorities announced that
the virus had affected poultry in four new locations in the
mainly Kurdish southeast, a news agency has
reported.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer) (TURKEY) AFP/Interpress/File - Fri Feb 16, 3:21 PM ET A veterinary worker vaccinates a chicken at a private hen
house outside Saint-Petersburg in April 2006. Dozens of
poultry have died in an outbreak of bird flu in the Moscow
region and several farmers have been hospitalized with
symptoms of the disease, officials
said.(AFP/Interpress/File/Alexander Drozdov) (RUSSIA) AFP/File - Fri Feb 16, 1:40 PM ET A government vet disinfects his boots outside a
contaminated shed at a factory farm in Holton, England, 05
February 2007. Poultry products from Hungary were the most
likely cause of an outbreak of a potentially lethal H5N1
strain of the bird flu virus at a turkey farm in eastern
England, the government said.(AFP/File/Leon Neal) by Phil
Hazlewood (ENGLAND) AFP/File - Fri Feb 16, 1:52 PM ET World Health Organisation (WHO) headquarters, in Geneva,
Switzerland. The WHO said that a vaccine against the human
strain of the H5N1 influenza virus could be produced within
three months of an outbreak.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini) AP - Fri Feb 16, 1:05 PM ET A chicken peers out of its pen at a chicken wholesale
market Monday Feb. 12, 2007 in central Jakarta, Indonesia.
The H5N1 bird flu virus has prompted the slaughter of
millions of birds across Asia since late 2003, and has
caused the deaths of 167 people worldwide, including
Indonesia's latest victim, a 20-year-old woman who died on
Sunday according to the World Health Organization.(AP
Photo/Ed Wray) (INDONESIA) AFP/EPA/File - Fri Feb 16, 6:31 PM ET Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) President John Coates
gives a presentation in 2000. The AOC said it will launch a
large-scale immunisation program for athletes competing at
next year's Beijing Olympics amid concern over diseases
including bird flu.(AFP/EPA/File/Laurent Gillieron)
(AUSTRALIA) AFP/File - Sat Feb 17, 8:49 AM ET Railways staff wearing protective gear remove a "dead
bird" from a station carriage during a drill in Hong Kong on
5 February. Preliminary tests on a common kestrel found dead
in Hong Kong have indicated it was infected with the milder
H5 strain of bird flu.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke) (HONG KONG) AFP/File - Sat Feb 17, 11:12 AM ET An Egyptian worker holds up a chicken at a market in
Alexandria in February 2006. World Health Organisation
regional spokesman Ibrahim al-Kerdany has said that a
mutation in the deadly bird flu virus that has appeared in
Egypt has not made the killer disease deadlier despite
making it more drug-resistant.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki)
(EGYPT) Reuters - Sat Feb 17, 8:14 AM ET An Indonesian health official collects chickens before
destroy them in Bandung, West Java February 17, 2007.
Indonesia will resume sharing bird flu samples with the
World Health Organization (WHO), but under a new mechanism
aimed at ensuring developing nations get access to vaccines,
the health minister and the WHO said on Friday.
REUTERS/Stringer (INDONESIA) AFP - Sat Feb 17, 4:13 PM ET Local policemen talks to residents in the village of
Shikhkovo, some 60 kms west from Moscow, where the H5N1
virus has been registered. Russian authorities have
confirmed that the deadly H5N1 strain bird flu was detected
at one of the three infected farms near Moscow, a veterinary
source said.(AFP/Alexander Nemenov) (RUSSIA) Sun Feb 18, 7:15 AM ET A veterinary official dressed in a protective suit
prepares a pump while his car blocks the access to a house,
background, where bird flu killed some domestic birds, in
the village of Pavlovskoye, some 20 km (12 miles) south of
Moscow, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2007. Birds near Moscow were
killed by avian flu and authorities are checking whether the
cause of death was the H5N1 strain, which can kill people,
an official said Friday. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
(RUSSIA) Sunday, 18 February 2007 A traffic policeman guards a quarantine zone near the
village of Pavlovskoye, some 20 km (12.4 miles) from Moscow
February 17, 2007. (Alexander Natruskin/Reuters)
(RUSSIA) Reuters - Sun Feb 18, 8:04 AM ET A traffic policeman checks a car leaving the quarantine
zone around the village of Pavlovskoye, thought to be
affected by bird flu, some 20 km (12.4 miles) from Moscow
February 18, 2007. The sign reads, 'Quarantine'.
REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin (RUSSIA) AFP - Sun Feb 18, 1:57 PM ET Policemen check a vehicle at the entrance of the village
of Pavlovskoye, some 60 kms south from Moscow, where the
H5N1 virus have been registered. The road singn reads
"quarantine". Russian officials pinpointed the source of an
outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu as Moscow's
main poultry market, as more farms in the region came under
suspicion.(AFP/Alexander Nemenov) (RUSSIA) Radio Free Europe: Radio Library - Sun, 18 Feb 2007 5:53
AM PST A bird market in Kabul (AFP) Afghanistan imports a large
amount of poultry, mostly from Pakistan. Sun, 18 Feb 2007 4:05 PM PST Mass cull: Bernard Matthew's
farm (ENGLAND) AFP/File - Mon Feb 19, 3:17 AM ET Policemen check vehicles at the entrance to the village
of Pavlovskoye, some 60 kms south of Moscow. An outbreak of
bird flu in the Moscow region has been confirmed as the
deadly Asian strain of the H5N1 virus, a senior veterinary
official told AFP.(AFP/File/Alexander Nemenov) (RUSSIA) Reuters - Mon Feb 19, 3:50 AM ET Nikolay Vlasov, head of veterinary surveillance at
Russia's animal and plant health watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor,
speaks during an interview in Moscow February 19, 2007.
Health officials confirmed on Monday that a bird flu
outbreak near Moscow was caused by a H5N1 strain that can
theoretically kill humans. REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin
(RUSSIA) Reuters - Mon Feb 19, 6:17 AM ET Pigeons fly above a
poultry market that was closed for business as a security
guard wearing a face mask keeps watch in Moscow February 19,
2007. Health officials confirmed on Monday that a bird flu
outbreak near Moscow was caused by a H5N1 strain that can
theoretically kill humans. REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin
(RUSSIA) Reuters - Mon Feb 19, 6:16 AM ET A security guard wearing
a facemask disinfects his shoes in a sandbox at a poultry
market that was closed for business in Moscow February 19,
2007. Health officials confirmed on Monday that a bird flu
outbreak near Moscow was caused by a H5N1 strain that can
theoretically kill humans. REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin
(RUSSIA) AFP/File - Mon Feb 19, 6:11 AM ET Russian workers
collecting dead chikens from Makhachkala after an outbreak
of the bird flu virus in February 2006. Russian officials
have insisted that a bird flu outbreak near Moscow -- caused
by the deadly Asian strain of H5N1 virus -- is under
control, as thousands of people were monitored for signs of
illness.(AFP/File/Bashir Aliyev) (RUSSIA) AFP - Mon Feb 19, 12:44 PM ET Russian police inspect a vehicle at the entrance to the
village of Pavlovskoye, where the H5N1 virus has been
detected. Russian health officials have said they were
monitoring thousands of people and were to vaccinate about a
million birds after the Asian strain of H5N1 virus was
detected in the Moscow region.(AFP/Alexander Nemenov)
(RUSSIA) AFP/File - Mon Feb 19, 12:00 PM ET A Russian veterinarian inspects ostriches after an
outbreak of bird flu in 2006. Estonia has banned the sale of
birds in markets amid fears that the deadly H5N1 virus could
spread from neighbouring Russia.(AFP/File) (ESTONIA) AFP/File - Mon Feb 19, 12:52 PM ET Local boys receive sanitary leaflets in the village of
Shikhkovo, some 60 kms west from Moscow, 17 February 2007,
where the H5N1 virus was registered. The market's poultry
section was cordoned off and under guard following
disinfection Saturday, but business continued as usual at
stands in the neighboring pavillion selling domestic animals
and hunting and fishing gear.(AFP/File/Alexander Nemenov)
(RUSSIA) 23:57pm on 19th February 2007 According to the Transport and General Workers Union,
Bernard Matthews is preparing to lay off 500 workers (ENGLAND) AFP/File - Tue Feb 20, 2:16 AM ET A farmer feeds chickens at a private chicken farm. A new
outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus has been detected in
Laos in the first such case in nearly seven months. Presence
of the virus was confirmed after 112 birds were found dead
in the village of Nonesavang not far from the capital
Vientiane.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) (LAOS) AP - Tue Feb 20, 6:51 AM ET A Poultry Assistant of Pakistan's Agriculture Research
Council puts a bird flu infected peacock into a bag to be
suffocated at Islamabad Zoo, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007, in
Islamabad, Pakistan. Authorities closed the zoo in
Pakistan's capital on Tuesday after the deadly H5N1 strain
of bird flu was found in its peacocks and geese, officials
said. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) (PAKISTAN) AP - Tue Feb 20, 6:48 AM ET A Poultry Assistant of Pakistan's Agriculture Research
Council takes a bird flu infected peacock to be suffocated
at Islamabad Zoo, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007, in Islamabad,
Pakistan. Authorities closed the zoo in Pakistan's capital
on Tuesday after the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was
found in its peacocks and geese, officials said. (AP
Photo/Anjum Naveed) (PAKISTAN) AFP - Tue Feb 20, 9:44 AM ET Pakistani workers vaccinate an ostrich against bird flu
at a zoo in Islamabad. Authorities have shut down a zoo in
the Pakistani capital and slaughtered dozens of birds after
the deadly H5N1 flu virus was found in peacocks and
geese.(AFP/Farooq Naeem) (PAKISTAN) AFP/File - Tue Feb 20, 2:29 PM ET A worker at a Hungarian plant prepares turkeys for export
19 February 2007. Half a century after the Asian flu swept
across the globe, there are lessons to be gleaned from that
outbreak as the world warily eyes H5N1 bird flu, wondering
if -- or when -- it will mutate into a form that spreads
easily among humans.(AFP/File/Attila Kisbenedek)
(HUNGRY) AFP/File - Tue Feb 20, 2:29 PM ET Seagulls flying over a garbage dump in Morocco. Half a
century after the Asian flu swept across the globe, the
world warily eyes H5N1 bird flu, wondering if -- or when --
it will mutate into a form that spreads easily among
humans.(AFP/File/Abdelhak Senna) (RUSSIA) AFP - Tue Feb 20, 4:25 PM ET Moscow's chief veterinary inspector Alexei Volkov(L)
speaks with Russia's chief veterinarian Valery Sitnikov
during a press conference in Moscow. Russian health
officials said that the deadly Asian form of the bird flu
virus had been discovered at seven locations around the
capital.(AFP/Yuri Kadobnov) (RUSSIA) AFP - Tue Feb 20, 4:25 PM ET A veterinary surveillance worker, wearing protective suit
and mask, cleans a car at a poultry market in Moscow.
Russian health officials said that the deadly Asian form of
the bird flu virus had been discovered at seven locations
around the capital.(AFP/Dima Koroteyev) (RUSSIA) AFP/File - Tue Feb 20, 1:32 PM ET A Cambodian worker carries chickens from a pick-up truck
at a market in Phnom Penh on 06 February 2007. US military
personnel opened a three-day course to teach Cambodian
soldiers how to combat bird flu amid growing ties between
the two countries.(AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy) AP - Tue Feb 20, 1:37 PM ET Russian sanitary experts gives a vaccination to a fowl in
the village of Solodovo 140 kilometers (87 miles) west of
Moscow, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007. Tests were being carried out
on poultry found dead in several new areas in suburban
Moscow to determine whether the birds had died of the same
H5N1 bird flu strain that has affected birds in other areas
on the outskirts of the Russian capital, officials said
Tuesday. Overall, at least 190 domestic birds have died
since Feb. 10 on the outskirts of Moscow, and H5N1 has been
confirmed in four areas, Russia's Emergency Situations
Ministry said in a statement. (AP Photo/Alexander
Zemlianichenko) (RUSSIA) Reuters - Wed Feb 21, 7:37 AM ET A security guard wearing a face mask keeps watch at a
poultry market closed for business in Moscow February 19,
2007. REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin (RUSSIA) AFP/File - Wed Feb 21, 7:46 AM ET Russian police inspect a vehicle at the entrance to the
village of Pavlovskoye, where the H5N1 virus was detected on
17 February. Russian authorities suspect bird flu cases that
have emerged in recent days have spread further following
poultry deaths in the nearby region of
Kaluga.(AFP/File/Alexander Nemenov) (RUSSIA) AFP/File - Wed Feb 21, 3:11 PM ET An Afghan poultry vendor holds a chicken at a market in
Kabul. Afghanistan will slaughter birds in areas where two
cases of bird flu are suspected of being the H5N1 strain
that is potentially fatal to humans, the Food and
Agriculture Organisation said.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)
(AFGHAN) AFP/File - Wed Feb 21, 2:10 PM ET A bird stretches out from a cage in search of food in a
Lagos fowl market 06 February 2007. Nigeria doubled the
compensation for poultry farmers who lost birds in an
outbreak of avian influenza, Agriculture Minister Adamu
Bello said.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei) (NIGERIA) AFP - Tue Feb 20, 4:25 PM ET Moscow's chief veterinary inspector Alexei Volkov(L)
speaks with Russia's chief veterinarian Valery Sitnikov
during a press conference in Moscow. Russian health
officials said that the deadly Asian form of the bird flu
virus had been discovered at seven locations around the
capital.(AFP/Yuri Kadobnov) (RUSSIA) AFP/File - Wed Feb 21, 11:48 AM ET Russian police inspect a vehicle at the entrance to the
village of Pavlovskoye, where the H5N1 virus was detected on
17 February. Russian authorities have said they suspect
illegally imported exotic birds are the source of bird flu
cases detected in the Moscow region.(AFP/File/Alexander
Nemenov) (RUSSIA) AFP - Thu Feb 22, 9:13 AM ET A vet inoculates a hen against the bird flu virus in the
village of Konstantinovo, on the outskirts of Moscow, 21
February. A report has warned that European nations are at
least two years away from being able to effectively handle
an influenza pandemic, such as an outbreak of the deadly
H5N1 bird flu virus.(AFP/Dima Korotayev) (RUSSIA) AFP - Thu Feb 22, 6:34 AM ET A man feeds birds near a river in Singapore. Countries
working to contain bird flu on farms have also rolled back
infection amongst humans, the head of the world agency
tackling animal health has said.(AFP/Roslan Rahman) AFP/File - Fri Feb 23, 3:28 AM ET South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun during a news
conference at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, January
2007. South Korea's opposition on Friday dismissed Roh
Moo-Hyun's decision to leave his ruling Uri Party as a
"political circus."(AFP/File/Jung Yeon-Je) (KOREA) AFP/File - Thu Feb 22, 9:38 AM ET People look at caged birds at a bird market in Hong Kong,
January 2007. Initial tests on two dead birds found in Hong
Kong indicate they had a strain of avian flu, the southern
Chinese territory's authorities have said.(AFP/File/Mike
Clarke) (HONG KONG) AFP/File - Thu Feb 22, 2:47 PM ET A veterinarian fills a syringe to administer a
vaccination against the bird flu virus in a private hen-coop
in a village of Konstantinovo, some 40 kms outside Moscow,
21 February 2007. An outbreak of bird flu at eight Moscow
region sites, five of which have been confirmed to have the
deadly H5N1 virus, will be over within two weeks, a top
veterinary official said Thursday.(AFP/File/Dima Korotayev)
(RUSSIA) AFP/DDP/File - Thu Feb 22, 6:12 PM ET US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is seen 21
February 2007 in Berlin. Energy, deadly bird flu and
security will feature on the agenda as Rice meets her
Canadian and Mexican counterparts in Ottawa on Friday, the
US State Department said.(AFP/DDP/File/Peer Grimm) (USA) AFP/File - Fri Feb 23, 11:20 AM ET Afghan veterinarians chat during a break in a culling
operation at Dasht-i-Barchi village in March
2006.(AFP/File/Shah Marai) (AFGHAN) AFP/File - Fri Feb 23, 12:14 PM ET US ambassador John Lange(L), State Department's special
representative on avian and Influenza pandemic, and an
unidentified individual look at chickens at a private farm
in the Vietnamese central city of Da Nang, May 2006. Lange
said Friday that samples and vaccine production capacity
should both be shared worldwide if a potential pandemic is
to be avoided.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) (VIETNAM) AFP/File - Fri Feb 23, 3:43 PM ET Two eagles cross the Strait of Gibraltar, March 2006,
near Tarifa, southern Spain. The mild winter in Europe
helped contain the spread of bird flu amongst the
continent's wild birds by reducing migration, a scientist
from a top British laboratory said Friday.(AFP/File/Jose
Luis Roc (SPAIN) Reuters - Fri Feb 23, 11:12 PM ET An Afghan chicken vendor seen at a poultry market in
Kabul in this March 16, 2006 file photo. Two outbreaks of
bird flu in small flocks in Afghanistan have been identified
as the dangerous H5N1 strain, world animal health officials
said on Friday. REUTERS/Omar sobhani (AFGHAN) AFP/File - Sat Feb 24, 10:41 AM ET An Egyptian health department worker wearing a protective
suit, disinfects a house in a village north of Cairo in
March 2005. An Egyptian boy who was diagnosed with bird flu
earlier this month has now fully recovered and been
discharged from hospital.(AFP/File) (EGYPT) AFP/File - Sun Feb 25, 3:48 PM ET A Kuwaiti vendor displays ducks at market in Kuwait City,
October 2005. Kuwait has announced that it has detected the
deadly strain of avian influenza in poultry and birds such
as falcons and has shut the nation's only
zoo.(AFP/File/Yasser Al-Zayyat) (KUWAIT) AFP/File - Sun Feb 25, 1:30 PM ET A flock of city swans sit on Vltava river in central
Prague. Over 500 international experts met in Vienna this
weekend to forge a plan for combating new infectious
diseases such as bird flu in the face of challenges ranging
form climate change to expanding tourism.(AFP/File/Joe ) Liane Sowinski Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:04 PM PST The region's first health educator has been hired to
raise awareness of pandemic flu Health educator wants area prepared for the worst -
Fredericksburg, Va (USA -VA) AFP/File - Mon Feb 26, 4:29 AM ET A vendor sits among chicken eggs for sale at a local
market in Vientiane in October 2005. A 15-year-old girl may
be the first person infected with bird flu in communist
Laos, state media has said Monday as her blood samples were
being tested in neighbouring Thailand.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh
Nam) (NIGERIA) AFP/File - Mon Feb 26, 12:31 PM ET Kuwaiti health workers spray disinfectant after a 2005
outbreak of bird flu at a poultry market in Kuwait City.
Kuwait has detected 12 new cases of the bird flu strain that
is dangerous to humans in poultry at two farms in the Gulf
emirate.(AFP/File/Yasser Al-Zayyat) (KUWAIT) AFP - Thu Feb 1, 12:25 PM ET A woman sells chickens at a market in Lagos. Nigeria,
Africa's most-populous nation and one of the most corrupt,
would struggle to contain any major outbreak of bird flu,
observers have said following the first human death from the
disease.(AFP/Pius Utomi Ekpei) by Joel Olatunde Agoi
(NIGERIA) Reuters - Wed Feb 14, 12:02 PM ET A man stands in front of chicken in a market in Cairo
February 14 2007. A 37-year-old Egyptian woman has tested
positive for the deadly bird flu virus, bringing the number
of confirmed cases in Egypt to 21, a World Health
Organisation official said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Nasser Nuri
(EGYPT) AP - Mon Feb 26, 8:58 AM ET Poultry trader Heba, who is convinced her birds are
healthy and not at risk of bird flu, force-feeds corn to a
turkey by mouth in the traditional way despite the disease
causing thirteen deaths so far in the country, in the
village of Tanta in the Nile deltas, 150 kilometers (93
miles) north of the capital Cairo, in Egypt Saturday, Feb.
24, 2007. (AP Photo/Said Abu el-Einein) (EGYPT) AP - Mon Feb 26, 8:57 AM ET Poultry trader Umm Amr, who is convinced her birds are
healthy and not at risk of bird flu, force-feeds corn to
pigeons by mouth in the traditional way despite the disease
causing thirteen deaths so far in the country, in the
village of Tanta in the Nile deltas, 150 kilometers (93
miles) north of the capital Cairo, in Egypt Saturday, Feb.
24, 2007. (AP Photo/Said Abu el-Einein) (EGYPT) AFP - Mon Feb 26, 9:19 AM ET A Vietnamese poultry trader transports chickens to a
local market in Dien Bien Phu in January 2007. A new bird
flu outbreak has killed a number of chickens on a farm in
northern Vietnam, a television news report Monday quoted the
agriculture minister as saying.(AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam)
(VIETNAM) AFP/File - Tue Feb 27, 6:52 AM ET A Vietnamese official puts a culled chicken into a bag at
Van Trung commune, northern Vietman in November 2005.
Vietnam said Tuesday it has culled more than 10,000 chickens
on a northern farm after several dozen of them died of bird
flu earlier this month.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam)
(VIETNAM) AFP/File - Tue Feb 27, 10:23 AM ET A parrot is seen at a Kuwaiti shop for birds in Kuwait
City on 25 October. Kuwait has confirmed seven more cases in
birds of the avian flu strain that is dangerous to humans,
bringing the total number to 39.(AFP/File/Yasser Al Zayyat)
(KUWAIT) AFP/File - Tue Feb 27, 1:42 PM ET A vendor sits among chicken eggs for sale at a local
market in Vientiane in October 2005. A 15-year-old girl from
Laos has become the country's first confirmed human case of
the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the communist government and
World Health Organisation said on Tuesday.(AFP/File/Hoang
Dinh Nam) (NIGERIA) Daily Telegraph Wed, 28 Feb 2007 4:13 AM PST Sir Mark Sykes's body is to be exhumed. Sir Mark Sykes, a
senior diplomat and Boer war veteran, died of Spanish flu in
a hotel room in 1919, aged 39. AFP/File - Wed Feb 28, 6:28 AM ET Migrating ducks and pigeons gather by the river in
Eskilstuna, west of Stockholm in October 2005. Sweden has
said it was ordering poultry and other birds in captivity in
the southern third of the country to be kept indoors because
of recent outbreaks of the H5N1 bird flu strain in Europe
and the imminent migration season.(AFP/File/Mark Earthy)
(SWEDEN) AFP/File - Wed Feb 28, 6:28 AM ET Migrating ducks and pigeons gather by the river in
Eskilstuna, west of Stockholm in October 2005. Sweden has
said it was ordering poultry and other birds in captivity in
the southern third of the country to be kept indoors because
of recent outbreaks of the H5N1 bird flu strain in Europe
and the imminent migration season.(AFP/File/Mark Earthy)
(SWEDEN) AFP/File - Wed Feb 28, 4:39 AM ET A Vietnamese poultry trader transports chickens to a
local market in Dien Bien Phu in January 2007. Vietnam is to
lift a two-year-old ban on hatching ducks and other
waterfowl, the government said, despite a recent new
outbreak of bird flu on a poultry farm in the country's
north.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) (VIETNAM) AP - Tue Feb 27, 11:43 PM ET Poultry traders wait for customers at a market in Ha Tay
province near Hanoi, Vientam on Wednesday Feb. 28, 2007. The
government earlier this week confirmed the first bird flu
outbreak in northern part of the country in more than a
year. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh) (VIETNAM) AP - Tue Feb 27, 11:43 PM ET A woman checks out a chicken as two poultry traders look
on at a market in Ha Tay province near Hanoi, Vientam on
Wednesday Feb. 28, 2007. The government earlier this week
confirmed the first bird flu outbreak in northern part of
the country in more than a year. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh)
(VIETNAM) AFP/File - Wed Feb 28, 11:29 AM ET An Egyptian worker holds up a chicken at a market in
Alexandria in February 2006. A four-year-old girl became
Egypt's latest victim of bird flu, the 23rd to be diagnosed
since the virus was detected in the country, the official
MENA news agency said.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki) (EGYPT) AFP/File - Wed Feb 28, 2:40 PM ET A vendor selling ducks counts her earning at a market in
Changsha, in the China's central province of Hunan, August
2006. China on Wednesday confirmed a human case of bird flu,
the country's first for seven weeks, the Hong Kong
government's media service reported.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)
(CHINA) AFP - Wed Feb 28, 2:41 PM ET An Afghan woman from the Uzbek ethnic group feeds pigeons
in front of the shrine of Hazrat-i-Ali in Mazar-i-Sharif.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation ruled out bird flu in
two Afghans admitted to hospital in a province with the
deadly virus, the United Nation said Wednesday.(AFP/Shah
Marai) (AFGHAN) AFP/File - Wed Feb 28, 2:59 PM ET A Buddhist nun feeds pigeons in downtown Yangon, June
2006. Military-ruled Myanmar has reported a new outbreak of
the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in poultry in Yangon, the
country's biggest city, the World Organization for Animal
Health said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Khin Maung Win)
(MYANMAR) Reuters - Mon Feb 26, 11:18 AM ET A worker handles vials of medicine in a laboratory of
pharmaceutical company Sanofi Aventis in Ambares near
Bordeaux, France, September 20, 2006. Data on
Sanofi-Aventis's experimental bird flu vaccine shows higher
doses worked better, but it is unclear whether those results
prove the product's effectiveness, U.S. regulatory staff
said in documents released on Monday. (Regis
Duvignau/Reuters) (FRANCE)
