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Scientists count a record number, but annual visitors are still highly endangered 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 (US) |
More than 250 million birds are now registered on the Great Britain Poultry Register, one of Defra's measures to reduce the impact of an avian flu outbreak. (UK) |
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By law* in England and Wales you must register if you own or are responsible for a poultry premises with 50 or more birds. This requirement also applies even if the premises is only stocked with 50 or more birds for part of the year. At present, premises with fewer than 50 birds are not required to register, but we encourage keepers to do so voluntarily. This does not necessarily mean 50 of one species (although this may be the case) but 50 overall, for example if you have 30 chickens, 15 geese, 4 ducks and 1 rhea you need to register. (UK) |
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. |
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Monday, January 1, 2007 2:10 PM PT Molecular scientist Ken Sojonky searches for the presence of viral RNA in swabs from fowl coming from farms in the Chilliwack area of British Columbia.(CANADA) |
Monday, January 1, 2007 7:57 p.m. - Vietnamese family tested negative for bird flu 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. (VIETNAM) |
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Tue, 02 Jan 2007 6:51 AM PS Viet Nam News Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung addresses a meeting with the authorities of Ca Mau Province. VNA/VNS Photo Thanh Quang (VIETNAM) |
AFP - Wed Jan 3, 5:21 AM ET A man feeds chickens at a poultry farm in Hanoi in August 2006. Vietnamese and United Nations animal health experts have warned of a heightened bird flu threat after the virus was detected in poultry flocks in the country's south and centre in recent weeks.(AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam) (VIETNAM) |
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AFP/File - Wed Jan 3, 5:21 AM ET A woman sits behind a tray of slaughtered ducks and chickens for sale at a local market in the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City in December 2006. Vietnamese and United Nations animal health experts have warned of a heightened bird flu threat after the virus was detected in poultry flocks in the country's south and centre in recent weeks.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) (VIETNAM) |
CAIRO, Egypt, January 3, 2007 Inspector in an African market checks ducks for signs of avian influenza. (Photo courtesy FAO) (EGYPT) |
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CAIRO, Egypt, January 3, 2007 A farmer's flock of ducks on Egypt's River Nile. (Photo courtesy Galenfry Singer) (EGYPT) |
CAIRO, Egypt, January 3, 2007 Animal health technicians disinfect a farm in Tien Giang province, near Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where carcasses of ducks that died of or were culled because of avian flu have been burned and buried. (Photo courtesy FAO) (VIETNAM) |
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FP/File - Thu Jan 4, 6:26 AM ET Chickens for sale at a market in Hong Kong, March 2006. Early results of tests being carried out on the carcass of a wild bird found in Hong Kong indicated it was infected with H5 avian influenza, the government has said.(AFP/File/Antony Dickson) (HONG KONG) |
Geneva Jan. 4, 2007 (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) New WHO Director-General Margaret Chan poses for photographers on her first day in office at the World Health Organization's headquarters in Geneva Jan. 4, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) (WHO) |
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AFP - Thu Jan 4, 11:34 AM ET Margaret Chan speaks during a press conference in Geneva. Chan has taken up her position as the new head of the World Health Organisation and said she wanted her leadership to be judged on how she helps improve the health of women and Africans.(AFP/Fabrice Coffrini) (WHO) |
Du Quoin Evening Call - Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:47 PM PST Some communities in the U.S. set up tent hospitals to deal with the epidemic. (USA) |
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AFP/File - Sat Jan 6, 11:37 AM ET Chickens are kept inside a cage at a Hong Kong poultry market in October 2006. The Hong Kong government has confirmed that a wild bird that was found dead in a busy shopping district, was infected with the fatal H5N1 strain of bird flu.(AFP/File/Samantha Sin) (HONG KONG) |
AFP/File - Sun Jan 7, 12:55 AM ET An infant looks at pigeons fly around at a public park in Jakarta. Vaccinations has been proven successful in slowing down infection rates, people's awareness of human bird flu infection has been increasing while Indonesian government doubles budget (61 million dollars) for the coming year.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo) (INDONESIA) |
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Sun, 07 Jan 2007 0:12 AM PST - Montana Standard Wild Mallards watch from a distance in Anaconda's Washoe Park as wildlife biologists try to lure them into a trap. (USA) |
AFP/File - Sun Jan 7, 5:32 PM ET A Thai worker arranges eggs prior sale to his clients in Bangkok. Thai police said they had seized 1,800 bottles of contraband bird flu vaccine worth over 20 million baht (558,000 dollars), in what is believed to be the biggest such bust in Thailand.(AFP/File/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul) (THAILAND) |
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Mon, 08 Jan 2007 6:52 AM PST Slaughtered chickens are on sale at a market in Hanoi, Vietnam (File) (VIETNAM) |
Reuters - Mon Jan 8, 9:13 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. The number of people that could die in a flu pandemic that matches the 1918-20 outbreak will be 'very scary' and far higher than the 62 million deaths forecast by a recent study, an adviser to the White House said on Monday. (Nasser Nuri/Reuters) (EGYPT) |
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Reuters - Mon Jan 8, 9:17 PM ET Officials from the Indonesian agriculture department take a blood sample from a duck to test for bird flu in a village where more than 1,000 chickens recently died near Banda Aceh in northern Sumatra November 17, 2005. A 14-year-old boy has tested positive for bird flu in Indonesia, the country's first case of the virus in almost two months, a Health Ministry official said on Sunday. (Tarmizy Harva/Reuters) (INDONESIA) |
AFP/File - Mon Jan 8, 12:19 PM ET A woman sits behind ducks for sale at a local market in the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in 2006. Asian nations must unite to confront bird flu, climate change and a growing list of other issues that threaten the region, analysts said at a conference.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) (VIETNAM) |
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AFP/File - Mon Jan 8, 12:19 PM ET A worker wears a protective mask as he removes bird droppings at a bird market in Hong Kong, 07 January 2007. Asian nations must unite to confront bird flu, climate change and a growing list of other issues that threaten the region, analysts said at a conference.(AFP/File/Ted Aljibe) (HONG KONG) |
10:31 PM CST on Monday, January 8, 2007- ERICH SCHLEGEL / DMN Austin Fire Department hazardous materials response team members picked up birds on Congress Avenue Monday morning. (USA) |
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January 09, 2007 Thousands of poultry workers are to be offered free influenza jabs in an attempt to stop new forms of bird flu emerging. |
AFP - Tue Jan 9, 6:51 AM ET A Vietnamese nurse at Hanoi's National Pediatrics Hospital examines a blood sample taken from a patient suspected of contracting bird flu in 2004. Vietnam and UN agencies have launched a new 16-million-dollar phase in their battle to fight bird flu, as more deadly poultry outbreaks were reported in the country's south.(AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam) (VIETNAM) |
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AFP/File - Tue Jan 9, 6:51 AM ET A Vietnamese trader transports live chickens to a poultry market in Dien Bien Phu on 4 January. Vietnam and UN agencies have launched a new 16-million-dollar phase in their battle to fight bird flu, as more deadly poultry outbreaks were reported in the country's south.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) (VIETNAM) |
Reuters - Tue Jan 9, 10:57 PM ET An agricultural official burns pigeons in a campaign to stamp out bird flu in Jakarta, February 26, 2006. Two more people have been diagnosed with bird flu in Indonesia, bringing the country's total to 76 human cases, the WHO said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Dadang Tri (INDONESIA) |
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AP - Wed Jan 10, 7:36 AM ET Indonesian men lower the coffin of a 14-year-old boy who died of bird flu Wednesday Jan. 10, 2007, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia. The H5N1 virus killed the 14-year-old boy on the outskirts of Jakarta, the country's first fatality in six weeks. Tjandra Yoga Aditama, deputy director of Persahabtan Hospital, said the boy died four days after being admitted with flu-like symptoms.(AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) (INDONESIA) |
AP - Wed Jan 10, 7:32 AM ET Children stand around ducks being culled in a neighborhood where a 14-year-old boy died of bird flu Wednesday Jan. 10, 2007, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia. The H5N1 virus killed a 14-year-old boy on the outskirts of Jakarta, the country's first fatality in six weeks. Tjandra Yoga Aditama, deputy director of Persahabtan Hospital, said the boy died four days after being admitted with flu-like symptoms.(AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) (INDONESIA) |
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AP - Wed Jan 10, 7:33 AM ET A goose stands with her goslings as a man culls birds from a neighborhood where a 14-year-old boy died of bird flu Wednesday Jan. 10, 2007, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia. The H5N1 virus killed a 14-year-old boy on the outskirts of Jakarta, the country's first fatality in six weeks. Tjandra Yoga Aditama, deputy director of Persahabtan Hospital, said the boy died four days after being admitted with flu-like symptoms. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) (INDONESIA) |
AP - Wed Jan 10, 7:35 AM ET Indonesian boys cull birds from a neighborhood where a 14-year-old boy died of bird flu Wednesday Jan. 10, 20067, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia. The H5N1 virus killed a 14-year-old boy on the outskirts of Jakarta, the country's first fatality in six weeks. Tjandra Yoga Aditama, deputy director of Persahabtan Hospital, said the boy died four days after being admitted with flu-like symptoms. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) (INDONESIA) |
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AFP/File - Wed Jan 10, 12:30 AM ET Chinese farmers sell their pigeons at a pigeon market in Hefei, in central China's Anhui province. China reported its first human case of bird flu in six months, revealing a 37-year-old farmer from Anhui contracted the potentially deadly virus in December but has since made a full recovery.(AFP/File) (CHINA) |
AFP/File - Wed Jan 10, 12:54 AM ET A livestock vendor shows a chicken to a customer at his open air stall beside a road, a common sight in Jakarta. An Indonesian teenager died of bird flu, bringing the country's death toll from the disease to 58. Critics have charged that the country, which was accused of initially covering up outbreaks, has been lax in fighting the virus.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad) (INDONESIA) |
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Reuters - Wed Jan 10, 2:49 AM ET A vendor unloads ducks at a poultry market in Hefei, east China's Anhui province January 10, 2007. A Chinese farmer from the province of Anhui has contracted the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the country's first human case in months, leading to questions about whether the virus is circulating undetected among poultry. REUTERS/Jianan Yu (CHINA) |
AP - Wed Jan 10, 3:16 AM ET A poultry trader waits for customers at a wholesale poultry market in Ha Tay province, near Hanoi, on Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007. Some 30,000 birds died or were culled in three southern Vietnamese provinces last month in the country's first reported bird flu outbreaks among poultry in a year. Experts fear that the virus may spread to other countries in the coming months. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh) (VIETNAM) |
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AP - Wed Jan 10, 3:17 AM ET A poultry trader waits for customers at a wholesale poultry market in Ha Tay province, near Hanoi, on Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007. Some 30,000 birds died or were culled in three southern Vietnamese provinces last month in the country's first reported bird flu outbreaks among poultry in a year. Experts fear that the virus may spread to other countries in the coming months. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh) (VIETNAM) |
AP - Wed Jan 10, 3:17 AM ET A poultry trader checks a chicken at a wholesale poultry market in Ha Tay province, near Hanoi, on Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007. Some 30,000 birds died or were culled in three southern Vietnamese provinces last month in the country's first reported bird flu outbreaks among poultry in a year. Experts fear that the virus may spread to other countries in the coming months. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh) (VIETNAM) |
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AP - Wed Jan 10, 3:18 AM ET A woman carries geese at a wholesale poultry market in Ha Tay province, near Hanoi, on Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007. Some 30,000 birds died or were culled in three southern Vietnamese provinces last month in the country's first reported bird flu outbreaks among poultry in a year. Experts fear that the virus may spread to other countries in the coming months. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh) (VIETNAM) |
AP - Wed Jan 10, 3:19 AM ET A trader transports poultry on her motorbike's handlebar at a wholesale poultry market in Ha Tay province, near Hanoi, on Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007. Some 30,000 birds died or were culled in three southern Vietnamese provinces last month in the country's first reported bird flu outbreaks among poultry in a year. Experts fear that the virus may spread to other countries in the coming months. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh) (VIETNAM) |
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AP - Wed Jan 10, 3:19 AM ET A trader checks the chickens' weights at a wholesale poultry market in Ha Tay province, near Hanoi, on Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007. Some 30,000 birds died or were culled in three southern Vietnamese provinces last month in the country's first reported bird flu outbreaks among poultry in a year. Experts fear that the virus may spread to other countries in the coming months. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh) (VIETNAM) |
AP - Wed Jan 10, 3:19 AM ET Ducks were raised at a farm in Ha Tay province, near Hanoi, on Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007 despite a government ban on restocking waterfowl in an effort to prevent bird flu from spreading. Some 30,000 birds died or were culled in three southern Vietnamese provinces last month in the country's first reported bird flu outbreaks among poultry in a year. Experts fear that the virus may spread to other countries in the coming months. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh) (VIETNAM) |
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AP - Wed Jan 10, 3:20 AM ET Indonesian women work in a backyard chicken slaughterhouse in a crowded neighborhood Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007 in central Jakarta, Indonesia. As bird flu pops up after a yearlong hiatus in Vietnam and resurfaces elsewhere in Asia, experts warn now is the time for the H5N1 virus to flourish. (AP Photo/Ed Wray) (INDONESIA) |
AFP/File - Thu Jan 11, 5:16 AM ET A poultry trader transports live chickens to a local market in the northwestern city of Dien Bien Phu on 4 January. Vietnam has said a series of bird flu outbreaks among poultry has spread to a fifth southern province, raising fears of a nationwide resurgence of the deadly virus this winter.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) (VIETNAM) |
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Jan 11, 2006 (CIDRAP News) ©2006 Maryn McKenna Avian flu prevention puzzle: linking knowledge, action - Maryn McKenna Contributing Writer |
AFP - Wed Jan 10, 8:17 AM ET Pigeons gather on a rooftop of a building in Beijing. China has reported its first human case of bird flu in six months, but the farmer who fell ill made a full recovery and the World Health Organisation said there was no cause for alarm.(AFP/Frederic J. Brown) (CHINA) |
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AFP - Thu Jan 1, 9:58 PM ET Officials from the Indonesian agriculture ministry burn off cages that contained poultry and birds in Jakarta's Kalideres area, at a neighbourhood where the country's latest confirmed human bird flu casualty had lived.(AFP/Eri Toro) (INDONESIA) |
AFP/STR/Jiji Press/File - Thu Jan 11, 8:47 PM ET Japanese officials inspecting chicken cages inside a poultry farm in Kyoto prefecture. The government is probing a suspected bird flu outbreak after some 750 chickens died at a poultry farm in the south of the country.(AFP/STR/Jiji Press/File) (JAPAN) |
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AFP/File - Fri Jan 12, 12:17 AM ET Live chicken in a pen outside a seaside restaurant in Manila. According to WHO warnings, bird flu is expected to make a resurgence across the world this year and the new cases detected in Asia are just the beginning(AFP/File/Joel Nito) (MANILA) |
Reuters - Fri Jan 12, 3:26 AM ET Workers in protective suits disinfect the area around a bird coop in Miyazaki, on the southernmost main island of Kyushu, where 750 chickens died of what is suspected to be the H5N1 strain of bird flu, January 12, 2007. YOMIURI/Atsushi Aso (JAPAN) |
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AP - Fri Jan 12, 2:59 AM ET An Indonesian man collects chickens to be sold at a chicken farm Friday Jan. 12, 2007, in central Jakarta, Indonesia. An Indonesian woman died from bird flu while a second was in critical condition on Friday, as the country worst hit by the virus battled new cases following a six-week lull, health officials said. A teenage boy was killed earlier this week.(AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) (INDONESIA) |
Reuters - Thu Jan 11, 7:16 PM ET A Hyacinth Macaw parrot is seen in a bird cage at an animal park in Brugelette, Belgium in this file photo from October 26, 2005. EU animal health experts have tightened rules for the import of live captive birds as part of the bloc's strategy to fight bird flu, the EU's executive Commission said in a statement on Thursday. REUTERS/Yves Herman (BELGIUM) |
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AFP/File - Thu Jan 11, 1:24 PM ET Ducks are seen at a farm in France. The European Union has decided to lift its ban on live birds entering the bloc and laid down strict conditions for their import, the European Commission said.(AFP/File/Philippe Huguen) (FRANCE) |
File photo of chickens being loaded onto a truck in Yangju, some 40 km north of Seoul. South Korea's health ministry said on Thursday a poultry worker was infected with bird flu late last year, but had not been seriously ill. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won (SOUTH KOREA) |
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Reuters - Fri Jan 12, 9:44 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. The detection of the deadly H5N1 strain in Sokoto means the disease is or has been present in 17 of Nigeria's 36 states. REUTERS/Faro (NIGERIA) |
AFP/File - Fri Jan 12, 3:55 PM ET A crow perches on a stake at a Tokyo park while children and their mothers play in 2004. The Japanese government is investigating a suspected bird flu outbreak at a poultry farm in the south of the country where about 2,400 chickens have died.(AFP/File/Yoshikatsu Tsuno) (JAPAN) |
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AP - Fri Jan 12, 6:01 PM ET Workers in protective suits disinfect perimeter of a poultry farm, where about 750 chickens have died in the town of Kiyotake in Miyazaki prefecture, southern Japan, on Friday January 12, 2007. Agricultural officials ordered a nationwide inspection of poultry farms Friday after hundreds of chickens died in southern Japan this week in a suspected bird flu outbreak. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) (JAPAN) |
Reuters - Fri Jan 12, 11:43 PM ET Workers in protective suits spray disinfectant liquid on the area around a chicken coop in the southern city of Miyazaki where about 750 chickens died, January 13, 2007. Japanese authorities expect test results as early as Saturday on a case of suspected bird flu in southwestern Japan and said on Friday that the lethal H5N1 strain could not be ruled out. (JAPAN) |
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AFP/File - Sat Jan 13, 3:14 PM ET An elderly man examines his birds at a market in Hong Kong on 07 January 2007. A dead bird found in Hong Kong has tested positive for a milder strain of the bird flu virus, the city's health authorities said.(AFP/File/Ted Aljibe) (HONG KONG) |
AFP/File - Sat Jan 13, 3:16 PM ET Roosters play in a bird shop at the Kano Sabon Gari market in February 2006. Suspected avian influenza was recorded in northern Nigeria's Sokoto State, a day after the disease reportedly infected 5,000 birds in nearby Kastina state, a senior official said.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei) (NIGERIA) |
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AFP/File - Sun Jan 14, 12:28 AM ET A poultry trader transports live chickens to a local market in Dien Bien Phu. Bird flu has spread to a sixth province in southern Vietnam, officials have said, after the virus killed over 800 ducks on a farm in the Mekong Delta.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) (VIETNAM) |
Reuters - Sun Jan 14, 12:31 AM ET Workers in protective suits enter a poultry farm to destroy chickens in Kiyotake town in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan January 14, 2007. Japan said on Saturday it had confirmed a case of bird flu at the poultry farm, but could not immediately determine if the outbreak was due to a highly pathogenic strain of the virus. (JAPAN) |
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AP - Sat Jan 13, 6:43 PM ET Workers in protective gear stand in front of a farm where at least 2,400 chickens have died since Wednesday as preparations for culling chicken get under way in the town of Kiyotake, in southern Japan, on Saturday January 13, 2007. Japanese agricultural officials on Saturday identified the strain of the bird flu virus that caused the deaths of thousands of chickens at the poultry farm in southern Japan as belonging to the broad H5 family. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) (JAPAN) |
BBC News Fri, 12 Jan 2007 8:27 PM PST Indonesia has been trying to step up precautions against bird flu (INDONESIA) |
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Reuters - Sun Jan 14, 4:31 AM ET Workers in protective suits cull chickens at a poultry farm in Kiyotake town in Miyazaki, southwest Japan January 14, 2007. Japan said on Saturday it had confirmed a case of bird flu at the poultry farm, but could not immediately determine if the outbreak was due to a highly pathogenic strain of the virus. (JAPAN) |
AP - Sat Jan 13, 2:19 PM ET Residents wearing surgical masks to protect against severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, release birds during a prayer session for an end to the SARS outbreak in Hong Kong in this April 20, 2003 file photo. Imagine releasing hundreds of birds into the blue sky, or freeing thousands of fish into the big sea, as a bid to accumulate merits to one's good karma. That is the Buddhist ritual of releasing life which advocates one shall not kill or terminate the life of another sentient being. As the deadly bird flu outbreak in recent years might have deterred many of the followers from releasing birds, it is suspected some still brave their lives to perform the virtuous deed in Hong Kong. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, FILE) (JAPAN) |
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AFP/Jiji Press/File - Mon Jan 15, 1:07 AM ET Health officials carry sacks of calcium hydroxide to disinfect a poultry farm at Kiyotake town, Miyazaki prefecture, southwestern Japan where some 2,400 chickens have died. Local authorities in the region will begin incinerating 12,000 dead chickens on a farm as part of efforts to stop the spread of a recent bird flu outbreak, an official said.(AFP/Jiji Press/File) (JAPAN) |
Reuters - Mon Jan 15, 5:34 AM ET Workers in protective suits move barrels used for carrying the carcasses of culled chickens at a poultry farm in Miyazaki on the southernmost main island of Kyushu January 15, 2007. Japan's farm ministry has not found any new cases of bird flu after confirming an outbreak at the farm at the weekend, the vice farm minister said on Monday. REUTERS/Kyodo (JAPAN) |
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AFP/Jiji Press - Mon Jan 15, 5:41 AM ET Medical officers carry sealed boxes into a poultry farm to begin incinerating 12,000 dead chickens in the wake of a fresh bird flu outbreak in Kiyotake town, in Miyazaki in southwestern Japan. The Hong Kong government has announced it has banned all poultry imports from Japan with immediate effect after the country reported a bird flu outbreak.(AFP/Jiji Press) (JAPAN) |
Reuters - Mon Jan 15, 1:01 PM 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. REUTERS/Farouk Umar (NIGERIA) |
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AP - Mon Jan 15, 7:43 AM ET Workers in protective gears prepare to incinerate chickens hit by bird flu at an incineration plant in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, Monday, Jan. 15, 2007. Japanese authorities began incinerating more than 10,000 chickens that have either died of bird flu or culled at a southern Japanese poultry farm. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) (JAPAN) |
P - Mon Jan 15, 3:43 AM ET Ducks run past as a Thai livestock official at a farm in Nakhon Phanom province, northeastern Thailand, in this Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2006 file photo. A fresh outbreak of bird flu has been found in northern Thailand, the first in almost six months officials have said. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong, File) (THAILAND) |
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AP - Mon Jan 15, 2:47 AM ET Indonesian officials slaughter a duck as birds are culled from a neighborhood where a woman died of bird flu Monday, Jan. 15, 2007 in south Jakarta, Indonesia. Four Indonesians died of bird flu in the past week after nearly a six week lull in new cases. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) (INDONESIA) |
AFP - Mon Jan 15, 6:56 AM ET An officer carries a cage full of pigeons on the way to a poultry kill in Jakarta. Indonesia is preparing to ban backyard poultry farming in a renewed effort to fight bird flu, officials have said, after the feared disease killed four people last week.(AFP/Bay Ismoyo) (INDONESIA) |
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Reuters - Mon Jan 15, 4:37 AM ET Officials and residents burn poultry cages after culling hundreds of birds in a residential area in Jakarta January 15, 2007. One of two hospital designated to treat bird flu cases in the Indonesian capital has been overwhelmed with patients with symptoms of the disease amid a spike of new cases this year, a doctor said on Monday. REUTERS/Stringer (INDONESIA) |
AP - Mon Jan 15, 2:46 AM ET Indonesian officials watch as birds and bird cages are burned in a neighborhood where a woman died of bird flu Monday, Jan. 15, 2007 in south Jakarta, Indonesia. Four Indonesians died of bird flu in the past week after nearly a six week lull in new cases. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) (INDONESIA) |
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AFP - Mon Jan 15, 3:18 AM ET Pedestrians walk along a street market selling meat including live poultry in Hong Kong. The demand for chickens and pet birds for upcoming Lunar New Year festivities has raised fears of a surge in bird smuggling into Hong Kong, heightening the risk of outbreaks of deadly bird flu.(AFP/Philippe Lopez) (HONG KONG) |
AFP/File - Mon Jan 15, 4:52 AM ET A woman feeds pigeons in Bangkok, September 2006. Thailand's livestock department has confirmed the first outbreak of bird flu here this year, with ducks in a central province diagnosed with the deadly H5N1 stain.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke) (THAILAND) |
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Reuters - Mon Jan 15, 5:02 AM ET Japan's Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka (L) speaks during a meeting on bird flu response in Tokyo January 15, 2007. Japan's farm ministry has not found any new cases of bird flu after confirming an outbreak at a poultry farm in the southwest of the country at the weekend, the vice farm minister said on Monday. REUTERS/Issei Kato (JAPAN) |
AFP/JIJI Press - Tue Jan 16, 7:18 AM ET Medical officers load boxes containing 12,000 dead chickens from a poultry farm in Kiyotake, southwestern Japan. Japan's agriculture ministry has confirmed that the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu, which is potentially deadly to humans, was behind the nation's latest outbreak of the disease.(AFP/JIJI Press ) (JAPAN) |
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Reuters - Tue Jan 16, 1:58 AM ET A man feeds pigeons in Bangkok January 16, 2007.Thailand has suffered its first outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus in six months, an Agriculture Ministry official said on Monday after a rash of outbreaks in Vietnam and four human deaths in Indonesia this year. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom (THAILAND) |
Reuters - Tue Jan 16, 1:55 AM ET A woman feeds pigeons in Bangkok January 16, 2007.Thailand has suffered its first outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus in six months, an Agriculture Ministry official said on Monday after a rash of outbreaks in Vietnam and four human deaths in Indonesia this year. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom (THAILAND) |
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Reuters - Tue Jan 16, 3:40 AM ET A vendor catches chickens at a poultry market in Wuhan, China, November 11, 2006. Hong Kong should tighten imports of wild birds from China, which are released en masse at Buddhist religious rites, due to the risk they could spread bird flu to poultry, experts say. (Stringer/Reuters) (CHINA) |
AFP/File - Tue Jan 16, 11:38 AM ET Indonesian officials kill poultry in Jakarta, as part of an effort to stop bird flu from spreading. Senior World Health Organisation (WHO) officials have said that they are maintaining vigilance over bird flu outbreaks in Asia, even though they were following a largely known pattern so far.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo) (INDONESIA) |
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Reuters - Tue Jan 16, 5:32 AM ET A volunteer takes a blood sample from a migrant bird to test for the presence of the bird flu virus in Yogyakarta January 16, 2007. Indonesia is getting more hospitals ready to deal with a spike in bird flu cases, a health official said on Tuesday, after a Jakarta hospital said it was struggling to cope with patients suffering from symptoms of the virus. REUTERS/Dwi Oblo (INDONESIA) |
AFP/File - Wed Jan 17, 1:19 AM ET Pedestrians walk along a street market selling meat including live poultry in Hong Kong, a day after health authorities said a dead bird found in the city has tested positive for a milder strain of the bird flu virus.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez) (HONG KONG) |
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Yoshi Kawaoka, a professor of pathobiological science in the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, meets with assistant scientist Shinji Watanabe (at right) in one of the Kawaoka's research labs to discuss Watanabe's research on Ebola virus genes. Kawaoka is one of the world's premier virologists and researchers of influenza and Ebola viruses. At far left is Zejun Li, a postdoctoral fellow in pathobiological science who is studying the influenza virus. (Photo: Jeff Miller) (RESEARCH) |
AFP/File - Wed Jan 17, 2:39 PM ET Macaque monkeys are seen at a lab. Experiments on monkeys may explain an enduring mystery surrounding the 1918 influenza virus that inflicted the deadliest plague of the last century, a new study says.(AFP/File/Romeo Gacad) by Richard Ingham (RESEARCH) |
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AFP - Wed Jan 17, 5:40 AM ET Indonesian officials vaccinate a chicken in Surabaya. Jakarta governor Sutiyoso has said that backyard poultry will be banned from the city from February 1 in an effort to fight bird flu, which has already killed four people in Indonesia this year.(AFP/Mamat ) |
AFP/File - Wed Jan 17, 11:49 AM ET Birds are perched outside a mosque minaret in Giza, Egypt. Egyptian doctors have detected a new human case of the H5N1 bird flu, the 19th in the country so far.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki) (EGYPT) |
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AP - Tue Jan 16, 5:07 AM ET Thailand's Health Minister Mongkol Na Songkhla, right, views the bird flu control room at the health ministry in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007. A new outbreak of virulent bird flu was found in ducks in northern Thailand, the first such case in six months. The outbreak of the H5N1 virus was confirmed by laboratory tests after the deaths of more than 100 ducks were reported in Phitsanulok province, health officials said. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong) (THAILAND) |
Reuters - Tue Jan 16, 6:01 AM ET A bird is caged at a bird market in Hong Kong January 16, 2007. Hong Kong should tighten imports of wild birds from China, which are released en masse at Buddhist religious rites, due to the risk they could spread bird flu to poultry, experts say. REUTERS/Bobby Yip (CHINA) |
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Reuters - Tue Jan 16, 5:59 AM ET A man compares caged birds at a bird market in Hong Kong January 16, 2007. Hong Kong should tighten imports of wild birds from China, which are released en masse at Buddhist religious rites, due to the risk they could spread bird flu to poultry, experts say. REUTERS/Bobby Yip (CHINA) |
Reuters - Tue Jan 16, 5:57 AM ET A foreign visitor sits beside caged birds at a bird market in Hong Kong January 16, 2007. Hong Kong should tighten imports of wild birds from China, which are released en masse at Buddhist religious rites, due to the risk they could spread bird flu to poultry, experts say. REUTERS/Bobby Yip (CHINA) |
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Reuters - Tue Jan 16, 5:49 AM ET Enthusiasts watch caged birds at a bird market in Hong Kong January 16, 2007. Hong Kong should tighten imports of wild birds from China, which are released en masse at Buddhist religious rites, due to the risk they could spread bird flu to poultry, experts say. REUTERS/Bobby Yip (CHINA) |
Reuters - Tue Jan 16, 5:47 AM ET A cleaner walks past caged birds at a bird market in Hong Kong January 16, 2007. Hong Kong should tighten imports of wild birds from China, which are released en masse at Buddhist religious rites, due to the risk they could spread bird flu to poultry, experts say. REUTERS/Bobby Yip (CHINA) |
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Reuters - Tue Jan 16, 5:47 AM ET A man plays with his pet birds at a bird market in Hong Kong January 16, 2007. Hong Kong should tighten imports of wild birds from China, which are released en masse at Buddhist religious rites, due to the risk they could spread bird flu to poultry, experts say. REUTERS/Bobby Yip (CHINA) |
Reuters - Tue Jan 16, 5:32 AM ET A volunteer takes a blood sample from a migrant bird to test for the presence of the bird flu virus in Yogyakarta January 16, 2007. Indonesia is getting more hospitals ready to deal with a spike in bird flu cases, a health official said on Tuesday, after a Jakarta hospital said it was struggling to cope with patients suffering from symptoms of the virus. REUTERS/Dwi Oblo (INDONESIA) |
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Reuters - Thu Jan 18, 10:21 AM ET Chickens are caged in a shop in Cairo, Egypt in this October 30, 2005 file photo. Two people who died of bird flu in Egypt last month had a strain of the H5N1 virus which has shown 'moderate' resistance to the frontline antiviral Tamiflu, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. (Tara Todras-Whitehill/Files/Reuters) By Stephanie Nebehay (EGYPT) |
AFP - Thu Jan 18, 6:38 AM ET A man feeds chickens at a poultry farm in Hanoi in August 2006. Vietnamese and United Nations animal health experts have warned of a heightened bird flu threat after the virus was detected in poultry flocks in the country's south and centre in recent weeks.(AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam) (VIETNAM) |
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AFP/JIJI Press/File - Thu Jan 18, 11:59 AM ET Medical officers enter a poultry farm to begin incinerating 12,000 dead chickens in the wake of a fresh bird flue outbreak at Kiyotake town, Miyazaki prefecture, southwestern Japan, 15 January 2007. Japan confirmed that the bird flu virus in its latest outbreak was an especially virulent strain, killing all animals in laboratory testing.(AFP/JIJI Press/File) (JAPAN) |
AFP/File - Thu Jan 18, 10:03 PM ET A chicken vendor cleans his stall at a market in Hong Kong. Initial tests have shown two dead birds found in Hong Kong were infected with the milder strain of H5 avian flu, the agriculture department has said.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke) (HONG KONG) |
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AP Friday , January 19, 2007 Indonesian officials watch as birds and bird cages are burned in a neighborhood in Jakarta. (INDONESIA) |
AFP - Fri Jan 19, 5:25 AM ET A health worker throws a slaughtered chicken on a fire during a mass culling operation in Jakarta. Indonesian health workers have started slaughtering poultry in the capital as the country stepped up its fight against bird flu, which has already killed four people this year.(AFP/Adek Berry) (INDONESIA) |
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AP - Fri Jan 19, 5:41 AM ET A health ministry official sprays disinfectant at a chicken coop in Lamdomcut village in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Friday, Jan. 19, 2007. Indonesia has come under fire for failing to make adequate efforts to fight H5N1 and has largely failed to follow through on earlier promises to stamp out the virus through mass culls. Indonesia has seen 61 human bird flu deaths since 2004, four of them this week in the capital Jakarta. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara) (INDONESIA) |
AP - Fri Jan 19, 5:29 AM ET Health ministry officials hold a chicken during a door to door vaccination in Lamdomcut village in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Friday, Jan. 19, 2007. Indonesia has come under fire for failing to make adequate efforts to fight H5N1 and has largely failed to follow through on earlier promises to stamp out the virus through mass culls. Indonesia has seen 61 human bird flu deaths since 2004, four of them this week in the capital Jakarta. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara) (INDONESIA) |
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AP - Fri Jan 19, 5:34 AM ET A health ministry official vaccinates a chicken in Lamdomcut village in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Friday, Jan. 19, 2007. Indonesia has come under fire for failing to make adequate efforts to fight H5N1 and has largely failed to follow through on earlier promises to stamp out the virus through mass culls. Indonesia has seen 61 human bird flu deaths since 2004, four of them this week in the capital Jakarta. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara) (INDONESIA) |
AP - Fri Jan 19, 6:17 AM ET An Indonesian boy wears a mask as he plays with pigeons in a park Friday Jan. 19, 2007, in Jakarta, Indonesia. Residents handed over hundreds of chickens and other fowl for slaughter Friday as authorities in Indonesia's capital scrambled to stop the spread of bird flu after a spike in human deaths.(AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) (INDONESIA) |
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AP - Fri Jan 19, 6:15 AM ET An Indonesian agricultural official sprays disinfectant on a bird house in a large park Friday Jan. 19, 2007, in Jakarta, Indonesia. Residents handed over hundreds of chickens and other fowl for slaughter Friday as authorities in Indonesia's capital scrambled to stop the spread of bird flu after a spike in human deaths.(AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana (INDONESIA) |
FP/File - Fri Jan 19, 11:13 PM ET Health officials wearing protective suits carry equipment used in the slaughter of chickens and ducks in Asan. Bird flu has spread in South Korea to a fifth farm, officials have said, despite stepped up government efforts to contain outbreaks of the deadly virus in recent weeks. The agriculture ministry said bird flu has been discovered in a village within a 10-kilometre quarantine zone established after a previous outbreak on a chicken farm last month.(AFP/File/Byung-Gi Kang) (SOUTH KOREA) |
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AP - Sat Jan 20, 3:00 AM ET South Korean police officers tighten the control of vehicles at the entrance of village affected by bird flu in Cheonan, south of Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2007. South Korean quarantine officials are set to slaughter 273,000 poultry after an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, the agriculture ministry and health officials said Saturday. The Korean read ' Bird Influenza Area, Off Limits.' (AP Photo/ Yonhap, Kim Jun-ho) (SOUTH KOREA) |
Reuters - Sat Jan 20, 2:46 AM ET An Indonesian agriculture official vaccinates a chicken in Bogor, West Java January 20, 2007. Bird flu has killed a woman in Indonesia, the 62nd death from the virus in the country with the highest fatality rate, a health ministry official said on Saturday. REUTERS/Dadang Tri (INDONESIA) |
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AFP/File - Sat Jan 20, 3:05 AM ET An Egyptian health department worker, wearing a protective suit, disinfects a house in Al-Abiyat, north of Cairo in 2005. An Egyptian woman died from bird flu overnight, bringing to 11 the number of people in the country to have succumbed to the disease, the heath ministry has said.(AFP/File) (EGYPT) |
Reuters - Sat Jan 20, 3:17 AM ET Indonesian boys cover their nose while agriculture official sprays disinfectant on the chicken's cages in Bogor, West Java January 20, 2007. Bird flu has killed a woman in Indonesia, the 62nd death from the virus in the country with the highest fatality rate, a health ministry official sain on Saturday. REUTERS/Dadang Tri (INDONESIA) |
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Reuters - Sat Jan 20, 11:40 AM ET A vendor selects a pigeon for slaughter at his shop in Cairo January 20, 2007. An Egyptian woman died from bird flu on Friday after six days in hospital, the state news agency MENA said. REUTERS/Amr Dalsh (EGYPT) |
AFP/File - Sat Jan 20, 3:33 PM ET An Egyptian poultry seller weighs a chicken for customers at Bab Omar Basha market in Alexandria in February 2006. An Egyptian woman died from bird flu overnight, bringing to 11 the number of people in the country to have succumbed to the disease, the heath ministry said.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki) by Lamia Radi (EGYPT) |
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Sat, 20 Jan 2007 1:03 PM PST Indonesian health officials vaccinate poultry against bird flu, 17 Jan. 2007 Indonesia's Health Ministry announced Saturday the death of another woman from Avian influenza, raising the country's death toll to 62. Meanwhile, South Korean officials are planning to slaughter hundreds of thousands of poultry to contain their own bird flu outbreak. VOA's Sean Maroney reports from Washington. (INDONESIA) (SOUTH KOREA) |
Sat, 20 Jan 2007 1:24 PM PST News 8 Austin's Bob Robuck reports on the city's findings into the bird deaths. Parasites, cold weather blamed for dead birds - TX (USA) |
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AP - Sun Jan 21, 12:35 AM ET Agricultural officials and volunteers collect poultry to be slaughtered as part of Indonesia's effort to get rid of 'backyard birds' which health officials say are a primary culprit in cases where humans have died from the disease Sunday Jan. 21, 2007 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Health officials announced that a 19 year old woman died of bird flu Saturday, as authorities scrambled to stop the spread of bird flu after a recent spike in human deaths from the disease. (AP Photo/Ed Wray) (INDONESIA) |
AP - Sun Jan 21, 4:17 AM ET Wearing a protective suit, South Korean officials man a checkpoint at the entrance of a village affected by bird flu in Cheonan, south of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2007. South Korean quarantine workers began slaughtering hundreds of thousands of poultry on Sunday after a fresh outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, the Agriculture Ministry said. The Korean words read ' Bird Influenza Area, Emergency quarantine.' (AP Photo/ Yonhap, Kim Jun-ho) (SOUTH KOREA) |
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AP - Sun Jan 21, 12:43 AM ET A volunteer looks at chickens awaiting slaughter during a program to collect and slaughter poultry as part of Indonesia's effort to get rid of 'backyard birds' which health officials say are a primary culprit in cases where humans have died from the disease Sunday Jan. 21, 2007 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Health officials announced that a 19 year old woman died of bird flu Saturday, as authorities scrambled to stop the spread of bird flu after a recent spike in human deaths from the disease.(AP Photo/Ed Wray) (INDONESIA) |
AFP - Sun Jan 21, 1:17 AM ET A boy wears a mask as he waits to watch health workers and poultry owners slaughter poultry during a mass culling operation in Jakarta. Thousands of chickens, ducks and pigeons were slaughtered 21 January as the Indonesian capital Jakarta geared up for a ban on backyard fowl as part of the fight against bird flu, which has claimed 62 lives in the country.(AFP/Jewel Samad) (INDONESIA) |
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Reuters - Sun Jan 21, 1:51 AM ET An Indonesian livestock official sprays disinfectant at swans and chickens before they were slaughtered as part of a campaign to rid the city backyard poultry in an attempt to stem a flare-up of bird flu in south Jakarta, January 21, 2007. Bird flu has killed a woman in Indonesia, the 62nd death from the virus in the country with the highest human fatality rate, a health ministry official said on Saturday. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA) |
Reuters - Sun Jan 21, 2:17 AM ET A man walks past a chicken cage before the fowls were slaughtered as part of a campaign to stem a flare-up of bird flu, in south Jakarta January 21, 2007. Bird flu has killed a woman in Indonesia, the 62nd death from the virus in the country with the highest human fatality rate, a health ministry official said on Saturday. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA) |
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Reuters - Sun Jan 21, 2:27 AM ET Indonesian officials and volunteers slaughter chickens and ducks in a light rain as part of a campaign to stem a flare-up of bird flu, in south Jakarta January 21, 2007. Bird flu has killed a woman in Indonesia, the 62nd death from the virus in the country with the highest human fatality rate, a health ministry official said on Saturday. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA) |
Reuters - Sun Jan 21, 2:29 AM ET A volunteer looks at birds in cages before helping to slaughter them as part of a campaign to stem a flare-up of bird flu, in south Jakarta January 21, 2007. Bird flu has killed a woman in Indonesia, the 62nd death from the virus in the country with the highest human fatality rate, a health ministry official said on Saturday. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA) |
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Reuters - Sun Jan 21, 2:32 AM ET Indonesian officials and volunteers prepare to slaughter chickens and swans as part of a campaign to stem a flare-up of bird flu, in south Jakarta January 21, 2007. Bird flu has killed a woman in Indonesia, the 62nd death from the virus in the country with the highest human fatality rate, a health ministry official said on Saturday. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA) |
Reuters - Sun Jan 21, 2:36 AM ET Indonesians look at chickens before they are slaughtered as part of a campaign to stem a flare-up of bird flu, in south Jakarta January 21, 2007. Bird flu has killed a woman in Indonesia, the 62nd death from the virus in the country with the highest human fatality rate, a health ministry official said on Saturday. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA) |
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AP - Sun Jan 21, 4:17 AM ET Wearing a protective suit, South Korean officials take away sacks containing slaughtered chickens at a chicken farm where the bird flu virus was found in Cheonan, south of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2007. South Korean quarantine workers began slaughtering hundreds of thousands of poultry on Sunday after a fresh outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, the Agriculture Ministry said. (AP Photo/ Yonhap, Kim Jun-ho) (SOUTH KOREA) |
AFP/File - Mon Jan 22, 8:02 AM ET An Egyptian poultry seller weighs a chicken for customers at Bab Omar Basha market in Alexandria in February 2006. Egypt is on high alert after the H5N1 strain of the avian flu became more resistant to the Tamiflu antiviral drug predominantly used to combat the disease, the health minister has been quoted as saying.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki) (EGYPT) |
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AFP/File - Mon Jan 22, 9:07 AM ET Chickens for sale at a market in Hong Kong, March 2006. Three dead birds found in Hong Kong were infected with the fatal H5N1 strain of bird flu, agricultural officials has said.(AFP/File/Antony Dickson) (HONG KONG) |
AFP/File - Mon Jan 22, 7:56 AM ET Margaret Chan speaks during a press conference in Geneva, 04 January. Chan has warned the world not to drop its guard against a possible flu pandemic, highlighting the fact that 2006 was a record year for bird flu deaths.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini) (WHO) |
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AFP/File - Mon Jan 22, 10:51 AM ET Roosters play in a bird shop at the Kano Sabon Gari market in February 2006. An outbreak of the deadly N5H1 strain of bird flu has resurfaced among poultry in northern Nigeria's commercial capital Kano, veterinary officials have said.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei) |
Dr. Margaret Chan, 16 Jan 2007 The head of the World Health Organization has said it will be years until bird flu is eliminated in poultry, and that until then the world must remain vigilant against a human pandemic of the disease. |
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AFP/File - Mon Jan 22, 1:07 PM ET A South Korean health official wearing a protective suit carries a sack containing ducks after they were slaughtered at a duck farm where the bird flu virus was found in 2006. South Korean health officials announced plans to slaughter more than 660,000 poultry and pigs to try to stem a new outbreak of potentially deadly bird flu.(AFP/File/Kang Byung-Gi) |
AFP/File - Tue Jan 23, 4:38 AM ET A girl feeds pigeons close to the Royal Palace in Bangkok, September 2006. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned against complacency after fresh flare-ups of bird flu worldwide, as Thailand reported its second outbreak this year.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke) |
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AFP/Jiji Press/File - Tue Jan 23, 6:04 AM ET Medical officers transport sealed boxes containing 12,000 dead chickens from a poultry farm in Kiyotake town, Miyazaki prefecture, 15 January. Japanese authorities have found a suspected fresh case of bird flu in the same province where an outbreak of the virulent virus was reported earlier this month, a local official said.(AFP/Jiji Press/File) |
AFP/File - Tue Jan 23, 11:06 AM ET Local rescue workers collect dead chickens in Nagynyarad, near the Hungarian-Croatian border, during an exercise in November 2005. Hungarian's top vet has said that suspected cases of bird flu had been found in geese at a breeding farm in the south of the country.(AFP/File/Attila Kisbenedek) |
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AP - Tue Jan 23, 10:49 AM ET An unidentified veterinarian cuts samples out from a dead goose to detect the H5N1 bird flu virus in the Central Veterinarian Institute in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007. Samples will be sent to the European Union laboratory at Weybridge, England. Some 30-40 geese suspected of having been infected by the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus have been found on a farm in southeastern Hungary. Some 5,000 birds on the farm would be killed Tuesday Chief Veterinarian Mikos Suth said. Hungary's first case of H5N1; detected in February 2006; was found to be carried by wild birds including swans and gray geese; while the deadly virus was first found in domestic poultry in June 2006. (AP Photo) |
AP - Tue Jan 23, 10:47 AM ET An unidentified veterinarian cuts samples out of eggs to detect the H5N1 bird flu virus in the Central Veterinarian Institute in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007. Samples will be sent to the European Union laboratory at Weybridge, England. Some 30-40 geese suspected of having been infected by the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus have been found on a farm in southeastern Hungary. Some 5,000 birds on the farm would be killed Tuesday Chief Veterinarian Mikos Suth said. Hungary's first case of H5N1; detected in February 2006; was found to be carried by wild birds including swans and gray geese; while the deadly virus was first found in domestic poultry in June 2006. (AP Photo) |
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January 23, 2007 Richard Knox, NPR Nguyen Van Tikh, a farmer in the Viet Doan commune in northern Vietnam, says his family is very concerned about bird flu because of the money they have invested in poultry |
AFP/File - Wed Jan 24, 10:38 PM ET A poultry seller at a wet market in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia has issued its highest-level warning on the possibility of another bird flu outbreak in the country after the disease emerged in several regional nations.(AFP/File/Teh Eng Koon) |
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AFP/File - Wed Jan 24, 1:34 PM ET Dead swans lay on a table at the Hungarian Biological Institute in Budapest, in 2006.(AFP/File/Attila Kisbenedek) |
AFP - Wed Jan 24, 4:15 AM ET Officials burn poultry as a part of a mass culling operation in Jakarta. Indonesia is making a concerted effort to battle bird flu after five deaths already this year in a country where millions of people keep poultry in their backyards, health officials have said.(AFP/Bay Ismoyo) |
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AFP/File - Thu Jan 25, 6:40 AM ET Photo dated February 2006 shows a Malaysian veterinarian discarding bags containing chickens suspected of carrying the H5N1 avian flu virus into a pit in Kuala Lumpur.(AFP/File/Tengku Bahar) |
AFP/JIJI Press/File - Thu Jan 25, 9:34 AM ET Japanese medical officers load boxes containing 12,000 dead chickens from a poultry farm in Kiyotake, after an outbreak of bird flu on 15 January. Japanese authorities have confirmed a second case of bird flu in a southern province hit by the virus earlier this month.(AFP/JIJI Press/File) |
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AFP - Thu Jan 25, 9:16 AM ET A boy watches chickens roaming around a neighbourhood in Jakarta. An eight-year-old Indonesian girl has died of bird flu, raising the country's death toll from the disease to 63, a health ministry official has said.(AFP/Jewel Samad) |
Reuters - Sat Jan 27, 2:39 AM ET Indonesian children look at fowl before they are slaughtered as part of a campaign to stem a flare-up of bird flu, in central Jakarta January 27, 2007. Indonesia called on the military on Friday to help fight bird flu, a day after a young girl became the country's sixth victim this month. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA) |
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AFP/File - Fri Jan 26, 11:58 AM ET An official takes poultry to slaughter in Jakarta, 23 January 2007. US ambassador B. Lynn Pascoe handed over 100,000 sets of protective equipment to help Indonesia in its fight against bird flu, which has killed six people this month.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo) |
Pravda Fri, 26 Jan 2007 2:52 AM PST Birds fall dead from sky |
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Indonesian officials take samples from chicken at a poultry market on Wednesday, Jan, 24, 2007 in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. Five people in Indonesia have died from the virus since the start of 2007, while China, Egypt, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Nigeria and Thailand have all seen a resurgence of the deadly H5N1 strain in poultry and birds this year.(© AP Images) |
AFP/JIJI PRESS - Sun Jan 28, 5:20 PM ET Medical officers disinfect a poultry farm in Takahashi city in Okayama prefecture, western Japan. The agricultural ministry said a suspected outbreak was discovered on a chicken farm in western Okayama prefecture, and tests were underway to confirm if it is the third case in Japan this month.(AFP/JIJI PRESS) |
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AFP/HO - Tue Jan 30, 9:27 AM ET This picture released by the Okayama prefecture government shows a health official entering a poultry house to put down the birds in Takahashi city, western Japan. Another outbreak of bird flu is suspected in Japan in what would be the fourth case this month, the farm ministry has said.(AFP/HO) |
AFP/File - Tue Jan 30, 8:08 AM ET Sanitary workers put a goose in a plastic bin to be culled in Brasov city, Romania, May 2006. Romania is conducting bird flu tests following an outbreak of the potentially deadly H5N1 strain of the virus in neighbouring Hungary, health authorities have said.(AFP/File/Daniel Mihailescu) |
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Reuters - Tue Jan 30, 7:07 PM ET Participants acting as passengers wear masks as part of a precautionary drill on a ferry in Hong Kong November 1, 2006. Can wearing a face mask and regularly cleaning hands stop the spread of deadly bird flu? Students at the University of Michigan started a living experiment on Tuesday to find out. (Paul Yeung/Reuters) |
AFP/Interpress/File - Mon Jan 29, 7:10 PM ET A chicken is vaccinated for avian flu outside St. Petersburg, April 2006. Russia has registered its first cases of the deadly H5N1 bird flu since an outbreak hit dozens of towns and villages last year, Russian media reported.(AFP/Interpress/File/Alexander Drozdov) |
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AFP/File - Wed Jan 31, 5:06 AM ET Photo dated March 2006 shows a Hungarian scientist holding vials that contain a bird flu vaccine at Omninvest's laboratory in Pilisborosjeno. Australian pharmaceutical company CSL Limited says it has successfully tested its bird flu vaccine on adults and was ready to supply the drug if a pandemic were to hit the country.(AFP/File/Attila Kisbenedek) |
AP - Mon Jan 29, 3:54 AM ET An Indonesian government official holds slaughtered chickens before burning them during a culling Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Jan. 29, 2007. Indonesia has seen six human deaths from bird flu virus this month, taking its toll to 63. The vast archipelago has been criticized for failing to crack down on the H5N1 virus when it first appeared in poultry stocks in 2003. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) |
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AP - Mon Jan 29, 3:17 AM ET Indonesian government officials slaughter poultry during a culling in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Jan. 29, 2007. Indonesia has seen six human deaths from bird flu virus this month, taking its toll to 63. The vast archipelago has been criticized for failing to crack down on the H5N1 virus when it first appeared in poultry stocks in 2003. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) |
