|
AFP/File - Fri Jun 30, 1:04 PM ET A veterinarian prepares to vaccinate a stork against the H5N2 virus. Researchers combatting the feared pandemic of bird flu said they were exploring exciting new avenues in the quest for a vaccine but feared hitting a roadblock, as production of the precious molecule could fall way short of need in a crisis.(AFP/File/Mychele Daniau) |
Reuters - Sat Jul 1, 8:48 PM ET A pharmacist displays Swiss drug maker Roche's Tamiflu bird flu anti-viral tablets at a pharmacy in Sarajevo February 18, 2006. REUTERS/ Danilo Krstanovic |
|
AFP/File - Sat Jul 1, 4:40 PM ET Roosters play in a bird shop at the Kano Sabon Gari market in February 2006. The most lethal strain of bird flu has been detected in the eastern Nigerian state of Taraba, bringing to 15 the number of states, out of a total of 36, to be affected by the virus, a state official said.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei) |
Reuters - Sun Jul 2, 12:52 AM ET Chickens are put on sale at a poultry market in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei province July 2, 2006. China has found the H5N1 avian influenza virus in birds in the northwestern region of Ningxia, the Agriculture Ministry said, suggesting a fresh outbreak. CHINA OUT REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA) |
|
AFP - Tue Jul 4, 12:28 PM ET Two men play with their pigeons in Jakarta. The European Commission has beefed up measures to combat bird flu, extending an import ban on live birds and movement restrictions on pet birds entering the European Union.(AFP/Adek Berry) |
Reuters - Mon Jul 3, 2:40 PM ET Ostriches peer out of their enclosure at an ostrich farm in Kitengela, Kenya, October 22, 2005. South Africa has found a benign strain of bird flu on an ostrich farm in the country's west, officials said on Monday. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti |
|
AFP/file - Tue Jul 4, 3:56 AM ET Bird market in Jakarta. Indonesia has confirmed its 40th death from bird flu after tests by a WHO-affiliated laboratory showed a five-year-old boy had died of the virus.(AFP/file/Adek Berry) |
AFP/File - Tue Jul 4, 8:24 AM ET A masked man feeds chickens on a farm in Maradi, southeast of Niger, March 2006. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has said tests have not confirmed any case of the deadly avian influenza in northeastern state of Taraba.(AFP/File/Issouf Sanogo) |
|
Reuters - Fri Jul 7, 2:13 PM ET A view of the lake of Salburua Natural Park is seen from a bird observatory near Vitoria, northern Spain, July 7, 2006. A Spanish laboratory has confirmed the country's first case of H5N1 bird flu after analysing a sample taken from a wild migratory water bird, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday. REUTERS/Felix Ordonez (SPAIN) |
AP - Fri Jul 7, 1:40 PM ET Two bird-spotters look out from a camouflaged hut onto the Sabalburu marsh, near Vitoria, northern Spain, Friday, July 7, 2006, where a strain of bird flu was found in a wild bird, as Spain recorded its first case of H5N1 bird flu, the government said Friday. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos) (SPAIN) |
|
Reuters - Fri Jul 7, 2:23 PM ET A man looks at the map of Salburua Natural Park near Vitoria, northern Spain, July 7, 2006. A Spanish laboratory has confirmed the country's first case of H5N1 bird flu after analysing a sample taken from a wild migratory water bird, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday. REUTERS/Felix Ordonez (SPAIN) |
Reuters - Fri Jul 7, 2:07 PM ET Men look the map of Salburua Natural Park near Vitoria, northern Spain, July 7, 2006. A Spanish laboratory has confirmed the country's first case of H5N1 bird flu after analysing a sample taken from a wild migratory water bird, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday. REUTERS/Felix Ordonez (SPAIN) |
|
AP - Fri Jul 7, 1:41 PM ET A man walks near the Sabalburu marsh, near Vitoria, northern Spain, Friday, July 7, 2006, where a strain of bird flu was found in a wild bird, as Spain recorded its first case of H5N1 bird flu, the government said Friday. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos) (SPAIN) |
Reuters - Fri Jul 7, 2:18 PM ET Children cycle in the Salburua Natural Park near Vitoria, northern Spain, July 7, 2006. A Spanish laboratory has confirmed the country's first case of H5N1 bird flu after analysing a sample taken from a wild migratory water bird, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday. REUTERS/Felix Ordonez (SPAIN) |
|
AFP/File - Fri Jul 7, 9:58 AM ET Two seagulls fly over the Umia cove, next to the village of Grove in northwestern Spain, March 2006. The first case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus recorded in Spain has been found in a wild bird in the northern Basque country, the agriculture ministry has said.(AFP/File/Miguel Riopa) (SPAIN) |
Reuters - Fri Jul 7, 5:50 AM ET Storks are seen in Fuente de Piedra natural reserve in Fuente de Piedra, southern Spain March 6, 2006. Spanish national radio reported on Friday that the first case of H5N1 bird flu had been confirmed in a great crested grebe in the northern city of Vitoria but the Basque Country regional government said results of tests were still not available. (Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters) (SPAIN) |
|
Reuters - Fri Jul 7, 2:45 PM ET A wild duck swims in a lake in Salburua Natural Park near Vitoria, northern Spain, July 7, 2006. A Spanish laboratory has confirmed the country's first case of H5N1 bird flu after analysing a sample taken from a wild migratory water bird, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday. REUTERS/Felix Ordonez (SPAIN) |
AP - Fri Jul 7, 1:41 PM ET Birds land on the waters of the Sabalburu marsh, near Vitoria, northern Spain, Friday, July 7, 2006, where a strain of bird flu was found in a wild bird, as Spain recorded its first case of H5N1 bird flu, the government said Friday. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos) (SPAIN) |
|
Reuters - Fri Jul 7, 2:15 PM ET Wild ducks swim in a lake in Salburua Natural Park near Vitoria, northern Spain, July 7, 2006. A Spanish laboratory has confirmed the country's first case of H5N1 bird flu after analysing a sample taken from a wild migratory water bird, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday. REUTERS/Felix Ordonez (SPAIN) |
A wild duck walks in a lake in Salburua Natural Park near Vitoria, northern Spain, July 7, 2006. A Spanish laboratory has confirmed the country's first case of H5N1 bird flu after analysing a sample taken from a wild migratory water bird, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday. REUTERS/Felix Ordonez (SPAIN) |
|
AP - Fri Jul 7, 1:41 PM ET A bird is seen in the Sabalburu marsh, near Vitoria, northern Spain, Friday, July 7, 2006, where a strain of bird flu was found in a wild bird, as Spain recorded its first case of H5N1 bird flu, the government said Friday. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos) (SPAIN) |
Reuters - Fri Jul 7, 2:46 PM ET Wild ducks swim in a lake in Salburua Natural Park near Vitoria, northern Spain, July 7, 2006. A Spanish laboratory has confirmed the country's first case of H5N1 bird flu after analysing a sample taken from a wild migratory water bird, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday. REUTERS/Felix Ordonez (SPAIN) |
|
Reuters - Fri Jul 7, 1:33 AM ET A farmer ploughs a rice field in Ayutthaya province, 80 km (50 miles) north of Bangkok July 7, 2006. Thailand will step up its bird flu awareness campaign after villagers ignored its advice and handled and ate chickens that died mysteriously, the country's health minister said on July 6, 2006. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang (THAILAND) |
Reuters - Fri Jul 7, 1:36 AM ET A farmer ploughs a rice field in Ayutthaya province, 80 km (50 miles) north of Bangkok, July 7, 2006. Thailand will step up its bird flu awareness campaign after villagers ignored its advice and handled and ate chickens that died mysteriously, the country's health minister said on Thursday. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang (THAILAND) |
|
AFP/File - Fri Jul 7, 6:25 AM ET A man plays with pigeons in Jakarta, July 4. A health ministry official has said that a three-year-old Indonesian girl who died this week was infected with bird flu, according to local test results which are usually reliable.(AFP/File/Adek Berry) (INDONESIA) |
AFP/File - Fri Jul 7, 12:58 PM ET Chickens peer from their cages, March 2006. The German parliament has extended to next February a lock-up order in force for domestic poultry in areas with a high risk of bird flu.(AFP/File/Shah Marai) (GERMANY) |
|
AFP/Getty Images/File - Mon Jul 10, 4:32 PM ET Black-necked stilts in migration on the Pacific Flyway, in June 2006, near Calipatria, California. New York officials unveiled an emergency response plan to limit the havoc a global flu pandemic might wreak on one of the world's densest, busiest cities.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David McNew) (US) |
AFP/File - Tue Jul 11, 4:37 PM ET A box of Tamiflu, the anti-viral medication. London's mayor Ken Livingstone has published plans to ensure essential services in the capital keep running in the event of a bird flu pandemic.(AFP/File/Philippe Huguen) |
|
AP - Mon Jul 10, 5:55 AM ET Tunisian Ali Hachani, right, president of the Economic and Social Council, ECOSOC, speaks next to British David Nabarro, left, United Nations Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza during a special session of The Economic and Social Council, ECOSOC regarding Avian Flu at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, July 10, 2006. (AP Photo/Keystone/Laurent Gillieron) |
Reuters - Tue Jul 11, 9:34 AM ET David A. Sack, excutive director of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, talks to Reuters in Dhaka July 11, 2006. David said that the centre is planning to open a laboratory in Bangladesh to develop low-cost vaccines to protect poultry from avian flu. No case of bird flu has been reported in Bangladesh, but health officials have said the country is potentially at risk after outbreaks in neighbouring India and Myanmar. REUTERs/Rafiqur Rahman. (BANGLADESH) |
|
AP - Wed Jul 12, 8:51 AM ET A dancer dances in front of a straw swan monument, unveiled in Torun, Poland, Wednesday July 12, 2006. The monument is located in the place where first cases of bird flu H5N1 strain infected swans where found in Poland in March 2006. (AP Photo/Wojtek Szabelski) (POLAND) |
Poultry owners within wild bird risk area must keep birds indoors or, if not possible, ensure they are kept away from wild birds Bird transport within 6 mile (10km) surveillance zone will be curbed Poultry within 1.8 mile (3km) protection zone must be kept indoors and will be tested (SCOTLAND) |
|
Reuters - Tue Jul 11, 9:39 AM ET Doctors work in a laboratory of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research in Dhaka July 11, 2006. The centre said on Tuesday that it was planning to open a laboratory in Bangladesh to develop low-cost vaccines to protect poultry from avian flu. REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman (BANGLADESH) |
Reuters - Tue Jul 11, 4:45 PM ET Officials from the US Department of Agriculture test a bird for avian flu in Alaska in this June 6, 2006 file photo. The U.S. Health and Human Services Department released another $225 million to states and cities on Tuesday to use in preparing for a pandemic of bird flu or other disease. (Daisuke Wakabayashi/Reuters) (ALASKA) |
|
Reuters - Thu Jul 13, 5:37 AM ET A worker carries live chickens before transporting them to a local market in East Jakarta July 13, 2006.The poultry industry racked up millions of dollars in losses last year as Indonesians cut down on consumption and poultry product stacked up in markets after millions of fowl died of bird flu across the sprawling archipelago but Indonesian poultry farmers are breathing easy again with chicken back on the menu as consumer fears about the virus wane. REUTERS/Crack Palinggi (INDONESIA) |
Reuters - Thu Jul 13, 5:58 AM ET A worker stands beside a chickens before transporting them to a local market in East Jakarta on July 13, 2006. After being battered by a bird flu outbreak in recent years, Indonesian poultry farmers are breathing easy again with chicken back on the menu as consumer fears about the virus wane. Indonesians are voracious chicken eaters, crowding into roadside stalls selling a variety of chicken dishes through cloth banners with chicken cartoons, and supermarkets selling an array of poultry products from green duck eggs to speckled quail eggs. REUTERS/Crack Palinggi (INDONESIA) |
|
AFP/File - Thu Jul 13, 1:27 PM ET Two men play with their pigeons in Jakarta on July 4. Indonesia's top animal health official has been reassigned over his agency's poor performance in tackling the deadly bird flu virus.(AFP/File/Adek Berry) (INDONESIA) |
AP - Fri Jul 14, 2:15 AM ET A trader transports eggs on his motorbike on a road near Hanoi, Vietnam on Friday June 14, 2006. Vietnam has reported no bird flu outbreaks among poultry since December and no human infection since November. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh) (VIETNAM) |
|
AFP/File - Fri Jul 14, 10:54 AM ET EU health and consumer protection commissioner Markos Kyprianou holds a press conference at EU headquarters in Brussels in February 2006. Kyprianou has expressed concern at an epidemic of swine fever which has affected central and northern Romania for the past two years.(AFP/File/Gerard Cerles) (ROMANIA) |
Reuters - Fri Jul 14, 4:33 AM ET Indonesian poultry vendors display their ducks while waiting for customers in a morning market in North Jakarta street July 14, 2006. A three-year-old Indonesian girl who died this month has tested positive for bird flu according to tests by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, a health ministry official said on Friday. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA) |
|
AFP/File - Fri Jul 14, 1:10 PM ET WHO officials take blood sample from a neighbour of Astri Agustina who died of bird flu virus on 06 July 2006, in Tangerang. Indonesia confirmed its 41st death from bird flu after tests by a World Health Organization-affiliated laboratory showed a three-year-old girl had died of the virus.(AFP/File) (WHO) |
Reuters - Fri Jul 14, 4:32 AM ET Ducks are displayed for sale in a morning market in North Jakarta street July 14, 2006. A three-year-old Indonesian girl who died this month has tested positive for bird flu according to tests by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, a health ministry official said on Friday. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA) |
|
Reuters - Fri Jul 14, 4:30 AM ET An Indonesian child eats near a chicken at a morning market in North Jakarta street July 14, 2006. A three-year-old Indonesian girl who died this month has tested positive for bird flu according to tests by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, a health ministry official said on Friday. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA) |
AP - Fri Jul 14, 3:48 AM ET Villager buy chickens at a market in Jakarta, Friday, July 14, 2006. A World Health Organization laboratory test confirmed the death of a 3-year-old girl from bird flu, bringing the number of people killed in Indonesia to at least 41, a health official said Friday. (AP Photo/Irwin Ferdiansyah) (WHO) |
|
Reuters - Fri Jul 14, 4:36 AM ET A poultry vendor transports ducks and chickens in a morning market in North Jakarta street July 14, 2006. A three-year-old Indonesian girl who died this month has tested positive for bird flu according to tests by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, a health ministry official said on Friday. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA) |
Reuters - Fri Jul 14, 4:21 AM ET An Indonesian poultry vendor rides a motorcycle past ducks displayed for sale in a morning market in North Jakarta street July 14, 2006. A three-year-old Indonesian girl who died this month has tested positive for bird flu according to tests by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, a health ministry official said on Friday. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA) |
|
AFP/File - Fri Jul 21, 8:04 AM ET A chicken in a backyard waits to be taken away by Agriculture and Fisheries department staff in Hong Kong in February 2006. China has announced it had killed nearly 400,000 chickens in the far northwest of the country to control a fresh outbreak of bird flu.(AFP/File/Samantha Sin) (HONG KONG) |
AP - Fri Jul 21, 5:54 AM ET A Bulgarian worker disinfects a boy and his bicycle in the village of Slanchogled, Bulgaria some 300 kms. (187 miles) south-east of the capital Sofia, Friday July 21, 2006. Authorities on Thursday sealed off the remote southern village of Slanchogled near the border with Turkey after dozens of chickens died in a suspected outbreak of bird flu at two farms. (AP Photo/Petar Petrov) (BULGARIA) |
|
AP - Fri Jul 21, 5:52 AM ET A Bulgarian worker disinfects a car in the village of Slanchogled, Bulgaria some 300 kms. (187 miles) south-east of the capital Sofia, Friday July 21, 2006. Authorities on Thursday sealed off the remote southern village of Slanchogled near the border with Turkey after dozens of chickens died in a suspected outbreak of bird flu at two farms. (AP Photo/Petar Petrov) (BULGARIA) |
AP - Fri Jul 21, 5:51 AM ET A Bulgarian veterinary worker prepares poultry for culling in the village of Slanchogled, Bulgaria some 300 kms. (187 miles) south-east of the capital Sofia, Friday July 21, 2006. Authorities on Thursday sealed off the remote southern village of Slanchogled near the border with Turkey after dozens of chickens died in a suspected outbreak of bird flu at two farms. (AP Photo/Petar Petrov) (BULGARIA) |
|
AP - Fri Jul 21, 5:49 AM ET A Bulgarian veterinary worker prepares poultry for culling in the village of Slanchogled, Bulgaria some 300 kms. (187 miles) south-east of the capital Sofia, Friday July 21, 2006. Authorities on Thursday sealed off the remote southern village of Slanchogled near the border with Turkey after dozens of chickens died in a suspected outbreak of bird flu at two farms. (AP Photo/Petar Petrov) (BULGARIA) |
Reuters - Fri Jul 21, 5:33 AM ET Veterinarians collect chickens in the village of Slanchogled, some 300km (186 miles) south-east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia July 21, 2006. Bulgaria said on Thursday it had detected bird flu in three farms in a village in the south of the country near the Turkish border and suspected it was the feared H5N1 strain of the virus. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov (BULGARIA) |
|
Reuters - Fri Jul 21, 5:28 AM ET Veterinarians collect chickens in the village of Slanchogled, some 300km (186 miles) southeast of the Bulgarian capital Sofia July 21, 2006. Bulgaria said on Thursday it had detected bird flu in three farms in a village in the south of the country near the Turkish border and suspected it was the feared H5N1 strain of the virus. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov (BULGARIA) |
Reuters - Fri Jul 21, 5:36 AM ET A veterinarian disinfects a car near the village of Slanchogled, some 300km (186miles) southeast of the Bulgarian capital Sofia July 21, 2006. Bulgaria said on Thursday it had detected bird flu in three farms in a village in the south of the country near the Turkish border and suspected it was the feared H5N1 strain of the virus. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov (BULGARIA) |
|
AP - Fri Jul 21, 5:48 AM ET Bulgarian veterinary workers prepare poultry for culling in the village of Slanchogled, Bulgaria some 300 kms. (187 miles) south-east of the capital Sofia, Friday July 21, 2006. Authorities on Thursday sealed off the remote southern village of Slanchogled near the border with Turkey after dozens of chickens died in a suspected outbreak of bird flu at two farms. (AP Photo/Petar Petrov) (BULGARIA) |
![]()
Reuters - Fri Jul 21, 5:31 AM ET Photographers in protective suits walk in a quarantine zone near the village of Slanchogled, some 300km (186miles) southeast of the Bulgarian capital Sofia July 21, 2006. Bulgaria said on Thursday it had detected bird flu in three farms in a village in the south of the country near the Turkish border and suspected it was the feared H5N1 strain of the virus. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov (BULGARIA) |
|
AFP/HO - Fri Jul 21, 12:37 AM ET This file photo, made available last year in Singapore, shows the test kit for detecting avian flu. Singapore has begun a two-day simulation of a flu pandemic in a large-scale exercise that officials said would involve Changi Airport, a border crossing to Malaysia and several hospitals.(AFP/HO) (TEST KIT) |
Reuters - Thu Jul 20, 2:33 PM ET A veterinarian looks at a sherperd and his flock in front of the disinfection point near the village of Slanchogled, some 300km (186 miles) south-east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, July 20, 2006. Bulgaria said on Thursday it had detected bird flu in three farms in this village near the Turkish border and suspected it was the feared H5N1 strain of the virus. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov (BULGARIA) |
|
Reuters - Thu Jul 20, 12:48 PM ET A cameraman films a farm where a bird flu virus has been detected in the village of Slanchogled, some 300 km (186 miles) south-east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia July 20, 2006. Bulgaria said on Thursday it had detected bird flu in three farms in this vilage near the Turkish border and suspected it was the feared H5N1 strain of the virus. REUTERS/Mehmed Redjeb (BULGARIA) |
AFP/File - Thu Jul 20, 11:42 AM ET A man walks by chickens for sale at an open air market at the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Varna, October 2005. Bulgaria has registered its first case in poultry of the bird flu virus, Agriculture Minister Nihat Kabil has said.(AFP/File) (BULGARIA) |
|
Reuters - Thu Jul 20, 1:42 AM ET A policeman uses a dog to search for tsunami victims amid the ruins of houses at Pangandaran beach July 20, 2006. The tsunami that ripped through the south coast of Indonesia's West Java province landed a brutal blow on the economy of this popular beach resort, in a country where tourism has already been reeling from bombs, bird flu and earthquakes. Monday's tsunami left the beach front at Pangandaran, formerly clustered with hotels and souvenir shops, looking like a war zone. REUTERS/Dadang Tri (INDONESIA) |
Thu Jul 20, 2:22 AM ET A Jakarta bird fancier. Indonesia confirmed has its 42nd death from bird flu based on tests by a WHO-linked laboratory, making the country the world's worst-hit by human fatalities along with Vietnam(AFP/File/Adek Berry) (INDONESIA) |
|
AFP/File - Sat Jul 29, 9:11 AM ET A monkey eats a banana. A team of Japanese reseachers plans to use monkeys for testing the effectiveness of a vaccine against the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus. (AFP/File/Fayez Nureldine) (JAPAN) |
![]() A mallard duck is banded after Oregon veterinarian Colin Gillin took a swab sample Friday on Sauvie Island. DAVE OLSON/The Columbian Saturday, July 29, 2006 First of area ducks tested for bird flu |
|
AP - Mon Jul 31, 4:43 AM ET Workers from the Agriculture Ministry's Livestock Department dispose of chickens by burial in Thailand's Phitsanuloke province, 335 kilometers (208 miles) north of Bangkok on Sunday, July 30, 2006 after finding suspected bird flu in poultry there. Thailand has had two outbreaks of virulent H5N1 bird flu among chickens in the past two weeks, and last week confirmed its first human fatality this year from the virus. The Public Health Ministry announced Monday that more than 700 people are under medical surveillance because they have bird flu symptoms. (AP Photo/The Nation) (THAILAND) |
Reuters - Mon Jul 31, 1:05 AM ET Livestock officials spray disinfectant as they bury thousands of dead chickens in Thailand's Phitsanulok province, 377 km (234 miles) north of Bangkok, July 30, 2006. The H5N1 bird flu virus has been found in the Thai northeast bordering Laos, prompting culling of 310,000 hens in the egg-producing area, after the virus killed a teenager in the country last week, the Agriculture Ministry said on Sunday. Picture taken July 30, 2006. THAILAND OUT REUTERS/Stringer (THAILAND) |
|
Reuters - Mon Jul 31, 1:00 AM ET Livestock officials bury thousands of dead chickens in Thailand's Phitsanulok province, 377 km (234 miles) north of Bangkok, July 30, 2006. The H5N1 bird flu virus has been found in the Thai northeast bordering Laos, prompting culling of 310,000 hens in the egg-producing area, after the virus killed a teenager in the country last week, the Agriculture Ministry said on Sunday. Picture taken July 30, 2006. THAILAND OUT REUTERS/Stringer (THAILAND) |
An animal bureau officer disinfects a chicken cage in Pitsanulok province northern Thailand on July 25. Thai officials have ordered the slaughter of 300,000 chickens after the second outbreak this year of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus was discovered on a farm in the northeast.(AFP/File) (THAILAND) |