Avian Influenza Photo Gallery

AP - Thu Jun 1, 4:16 AM ET

Indonesian chicken farmers collect chickens for market at a farm on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia on June 1, 2006. At least 36 people have died in Indonesia from bird flu, out of a total world toll of 127, WHO says. The country averaged one human bird flu death every 2 1/2 days in May, putting it on pace to soon become the world's hardest-hit country, surpassing Vietnam's 42 deaths. (Tatan Syuflana)

Reuters - Thu Jun 1, 2:39 PM ET

Villagers carry their poultries to be culled in Cikuku village of West Java, Indonesia, June 1, 2006. Workers in Indonesia culled 1,600 chickens on Thursday in a village where the H5N1 bird flu virus killed a 15-year-old boy this week, and the government said owners who refused to surrender their poultry could be jailed. NO ARCHIVES NO SALES REUTERS/Pikiran Rakyat Daily (INDONESIA)  

AP - Thu Jun 1, 4:16 AM ET

An Indonesian vendor loads chickens onto a motorbike at poultry farm on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia on June 1,2006. At least 36 people have died in Indonesia from bird flu, out of a total world toll of 127, WHO says. The country averaged one human bird flu death every 2 1/2 days in May, putting it on pace to soon become the world's hardest-hit country, surpassing Vietnam's 42 deaths. (Tatan Syuflana)

Reuters - Thu Jun 1, 5:05 AM ET

Indonesians select live chickens in a barn before transporting them to a local market in central Jakarta June 1, 2006. Although the bird flu virus primarily causes diseases in birds, many countries around the world are on alert for it as they fear it may mutate into one that spreads easily among people and trigger a pandemic, killing millions. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA

Reuters - Thu Jun 1, 5:14 AM ET

An Indonesian woman sits next to chickens in a barn before transporting them to a local market in central Jakarta June 1, 2006. Although the bird flu virus primarily causes diseases in birds, many countries around the world are on alert for it as they fear it may mutate into one that spreads easily among people and trigger a pandemic, killing millions. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA)

Reuters - Thu Jun 1, 5:30 AM ET

An Indonesian worker carries chickens before transporting them to a local market in central Jakarta June 1, 2006. Although the bird flu virus primarily causes diseases in birds, many countries around the world are on alert for it as they fear it may mutate into one that spreads easily among people and trigger a pandemic, killing millions. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA)

AP - Thu Jun 1, 7:45 AM ET

Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari speaks during a press conference on bird flu in Jakarta, Indonesia on Thursday June 1,2006. Supari denied any human-to-human transmission and downplayed the seriousness of the outbreak. Sitting on the right is Steven Bjorge, Head of Communicable Diseases Section for WHO Indonesia. (AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyah)

Reuters - Thu Jun 1, 7:52 AM ET

Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari (L) accompanied by Steven Bjorge, a World Health Organisation epidemiologist speaks in a news conference in Jakarta June 1, 2006. Although the bird flu virus primarily causes diseases in birds, many countries around the world are on alert for it as they fear it may mutate into one that spreads easily among people and trigger a pandemic, killing millions. REUTERS/Dadang Tri (INDONESIA)

Reuters - Thu Jun 1, 2:39 PM ET

Officials cull chickens and other poultry in Cikuku village of West Java, Indonesia, June 1, 2006. Workers in Indonesia culled 1,600 chickens on Thursday in a village where the H5N1 bird flu virus killed a 15-year-old boy this week, and the government said owners who refused to surrender their poultry could be jailed. NO ARCHIVES NO SALES REUTERS/Pikiran Rakyat Daily (INDONESIA)

AFP/File - Fri Jun 2, 8:48 AM ET

Sanitary workers put a culled chicken in a plastic bag in Brasov city, 180 kmS northeast from Bucharest, May 2006. The European Union has widened an import ban on Romanian poultry to the whole country because the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu has resurfaced and is "spreading rapidly," officials said.(AFP/File/Daniel Mihailescu)

AP - Fri Jun 2, 12:55 AM ET

An Indonesian vendor selling ducks waits for a customer along railroad tracks in Jakarta, Indonesia on Friday June 2 ,2006. An 8-year-old girl has died of bird flu, a health official said Friday citing local tests, as a spike in human cases put Indonesia on pace to soon become the world's hardest-hit country. he World Health Organization has yet to confirm the death, which would bring the country's toll from the H5N1 virus to 37. (AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyah)

AP - Fri Jun 2, 12:56 AM ET

Indonesian roadside chicken vendors wait for customers on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia on Friday June 2, 2006. An 8-year-old girl has died of bird flu, a health official said Friday citing local tests, as a spike in human cases put Indonesia on pace to soon become the world's hardest-hit country. The World Health Organization has yet to confirm the death, which would bring the country's toll from the H5N1 virus to 37. (AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyah)

 

AP - Fri Jun 2, 5:56 AM ET

Suryoto prays over the grave of his 10-year-old son who died from bird flu three days ago after on the same day burying his 8-year-old daughter who died Thursday of the bird flu at a cemetery on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, June 2, 2006. Health officials said a spike in human cases has put Indonesia on pace to soon become the world's hardest-hit country. The World Health Organization has yet to confirm the most recent death, which would bring the country's official death toll from the H5N1 virus to 37. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

AP - Friday, June 2, 2006 10:55 AM EDT

Suryoto weeps over the grave of his daughter who died from bird flu on Thursday at a cemetery on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, June 2, 2006. Suryoto's 10-year-old son died three days earlier of bird flu. A spike in human cases has put Indonesia on pace to soon become the world's hardest-hit country. The World Health Organization has yet to confirm the most recent death, which would bring the country's official death toll from the H5N1 virus to 37. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

AP - Thu Jun 1, 4:16 AM ET

An Indonesian chicken farmer collect chickens for market at a farm on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia on June 1,2006. At least 36 people have died in Indonesia from bird flu, out of a total world toll of 127, WHO says. The country averaged one human bird flu death every 2 1/2 days in May, putting it on pace to soon become the world's hardest-hit country, surpassing Vietnam's 42 deaths. (Tatan Syuflana)

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AP - Fri Jun 2, 12:57 AM ET

A chicken vendor, takes a chicken out of it's cage at the poultry section of a market in Jakarta, Indonesia on Friday June 2, 2006. An 8-year-old girl has died of bird flu, a health official said Friday citing local tests, as a spike in human cases put Indonesia on pace to soon become the world's hardest-hit country. The World Health Organization has yet to confirm the death, which would bring the country's toll from the H5N1 virus to 37. (AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyah)

AFP/File - Fri Jun 2, 8:44 AM ET

A vendor sits behind a tray of roasted ducks and chickens at a local market in downtown Hanoi, April 2006. Donors have pledged more than 60 million dollars to help control bird flu from 2006-2010 in Vietnam, which was the worst-hit country but has reported no new human case in half a year.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam)

AP - Sat Jun 3, 5:42 AM ET

Earthquake survivor stand inside a chicken shed at Bobokan Tempel village in the earthquake-hit Bantul, Indonesia, Saturday, June 3, 2006. Bird flu could threaten survivors of Indonesia's earthquake, an aid agency warned, after finding people whose homes were destroyed staying in dung-smeared chicken sheds. A strong aftershock sent panicked survivors running into the streets early Saturday. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

AP - Sat Jun 3, 5:43 AM ET

Dimas holds a plastic plate after lunch inside a chicken shed at Bobokan Tempel village in the earthquake-hit Bantul, Indonesia, Saturday, June 3, 2006. Bird flu could threaten survivors of Indonesia's earthquake, an aid agency warned, after finding people whose homes were destroyed staying in dung-smeared chicken sheds. A strong aftershock sent panicked survivors running into the streets early Saturday. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

AP - Sat Jun 3, 5:46 AM ET

Earthquake survivors sleep inside a chicken shed at Bobokan Tempel village in the earthquake-hit Bantul, Indonesia, Saturday, June 3, 2006. Bird flu could threaten survivors of Indonesia's earthquake, an aid agency warned, after finding people whose homes were destroyed staying in dung-smeared chicken sheds. A strong aftershock sent panicked survivors running into the streets early Saturday. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

AFP - Sat Jun 3, 5:40 PM ET

An Emirati man stands at a poultry farm in Sweyhan, Abu Dhabi. Authorities in the United Arab Emirates conducted a bird flu emergency drill with the participation of the country's armed forces at a sports stadium in Abu Dhabi.(AFP)

AP - Sat Jun 3, 5:34 AM ET

Children play with a bicycle inside a chicken shed at Bobokan Tempel village in the earthquake-hit Bantul, Indonesia, Saturday, June 3, 2006. Bird flu could threaten survivors of Indonesia's earthquake, an aid agency warned, after finding people whose homes were destroyed staying in dung-smeared chicken sheds. A strong aftershock sent panicked survivors running into the streets early Saturday. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

AP - Sat Jun 3, 6:02 AM ET

Japanese military medics give medical attention to an injured earthquake survivor at their field clinic in Patuk, near Gunung Kidul, Indonesia, Saturday, June 3, 2006. Strong earthquake rocked the region on May 27 killing more than 6,300 people and leaving over half-a-million homeless. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Reuters - Sat Jun 3, 6:46 AM ET

A father carries his injured daughter as he prepares to leave a hospital after receiving treatment in earthquake-stricken Bantul, south of Yogyakarta, June 3, 2006. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside (INDONESIA)

AP - Sat Jun 3, 6:48 AM ET

Navy Surgeon Cmdr. Tom Davis, of Chesapeake, VA, treats an injured Indonesian man at a U.S. military mobile hospital in the Bantul district of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, June 3, 2006. Saturday's aftershock was one of more than a thousand that have hit the region since a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck before dawn exactly one week earlier, killing more than 6,000 people and injuring 30,000 more. Officials estimate that 135,000 homes were destroyed. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Reuters - Sat Jun 3, 5:11 AM ET

A crew member of an Indonesian military helicopter drops food aid to survivors at the earthquake-stricken village of Klaten, central Java, June 1, 2006. (Crack Palinggi/Reuters)

AP - Sat Jun 3, 7:16 AM ET

US Navy medic HMC Ron Snyder of San Diego, CA, left, examines a patient at the Marine field hospital in Bantul, Indonesia, Saturday, June 3, 2006. Health workers say they are battling a wave of infections among some of the 30,000 people injured by the quake, often in people whose cuts and breaks were seen by harried doctors in overwhelmed hospitals soon after the disaster. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

AP - Sat Jun 3, 7:18 AM ET

U.S. Navy medic HM3 Labarron Wright of Little Rock, AR, examines an earthquake survivor at the Marine field hospital in Bantul, Indonesia, Saturday, June 3, 2006. Health workers say they are battling a wave of infections among some of the 30,000 people injured by the quake, often in people whose cuts and breaks were seen by harried doctors in overwhelmed hospitals soon after the disaster. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Reuters - Sun Jun 4, 2:20 AM ET

Earthquake survivors, a woman and her child, eat inside a chicken coop at Pundong village in Bantul, near the Indonesian city of earthquake-hit Yogyakarta, June 4, 2006. The risk of infectious disease remains high because of the crowding and devestation in the quake-hit area and there have been worries over survivors taking refuge in chicken coops, with potential exposure to the bird flu virus in a country that has recorded 36 human deaths from the H5N1 strain. REUTERS/Dwi Oblo (INDONESIA)

AFP/File - Sat Jun 3, 1:05 PM ET

US Marines carry an earthquake injured girl out of an operating room at their field hospital in Sewon, Yogyakarta province. Some quake survivors on Indonesia's Java island have taken shelter in chicken sheds, exposing themselves to the risk of contracting bird flu and other diseases, a British aid group has warned.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)

Reuters - Sun Jun 4, 2:33 AM ET

An earthquake survivor sleep inside a chicken coop at the Pundong village in Bantul, near the earthquake-hit Indonesian city of Yogyakarta, June 4, 2006. The risk of infectious disease remains high because of the crowding and devestation in the quake-hit area and there have been worries over survivors taking refuge in chicken coops, with potential exposure to the bird flu virus in a country that has recorded 36 human deaths from the H5N1 strain. REUTERS/Dwi Oblo (INDONESIA)

Reuters - Sun Jun 4, 2:28 AM ET

A family of earthquake survivors rest inside a chicken coop at the Pundong village in Bantul, near the earthquake-hit Indonesian city of Yogyakarta, June 4, 2006. The risk of infectious disease remains high because of the crowding and devestation in the quake-hit area and there have been worries over survivors taking refuge in chicken coops, with potential exposure to the bird flu virus in a country that has recorded 36 human deaths from the H5N1 strain. REUTERS/Dwi Oblo (INDONESIA)

Reuters - Sun Jun 4, 2:33 AM ET

Earthquake survivors, a woman and and her child, rest inside a chicken coop at the Pundong village in Bantul, near the earthquake-hit Indonesian city of Yogyakarta, June 4, 2006. The risk of infectious disease remains high because of the crowding and devestation in the quake-hit area and there have been worries over survivors taking refuge in chicken coops, with potential exposure to the bird flu virus in a country that has recorded 36 human deaths from the H5N1 strain. REUTERS/Dwi Oblo (INDONESIA)

AFP - Sun Jun 4, 3:10 AM ET

Indonesian authorities maintained a red alert at smouldering Mount Merapi, as activity at the volcano continued to intensify for an eighth straight day since an earthquake rocked the region.(AFP/Agus Suparto)

AFP/File - Sun Jun 4, 2:41 AM ET

A child sits at the side of a damaged road in Klaten. Aid workers redoubled their efforts to help Indonesian earthquake survivors, with the United Nations saying shelter and sanitation were now its top concerns.(AFP/File/Agung Swastika)

AP - Tue Jun 6, 4:56 PM ET

Donna Childs, president and CEO of Childs Capital, with her tablet PC near the New York Stock Exchange, Monday June 5, 2006. The bird flu has yet to develop the ability to become a pandemic, but many businesses are not waiting to find out if it will. Some companies are going so far as to set buildings aside as 'clean facilities' in case of outbreaks. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Reuters - Wed Jun 7, 9:52 PM ET

U.S. Air Force Sergeant Steve Tremblay (2nd L) and Jay Pine (L) review their map before deploying on a Post Attack Reconnaissance and Recovery exercise, as members of the 190th ARW Civil Engineering Squadron erected Expeditionary Medical Support Systems, in preparation for a national emergency like the feared bird flu pandemic in Topeka, Kansas, June 3, 2006. Kansans are practicing using a football field-sized tent as a portable hospital. Across the United States, local and state officials are spending millions of dollars to plot strategies for dealing with a still hypothetical -- but experts say inevitable -- pandemic flu crisis forecast to kill upwards of 2 million Americans. Picture taken June 3, 2006. To match feature BIRDFLU USA STATES. REUTERS/Craig Sands (UNITED STATES)

Reuters - Wed Jun 7, 9:52 PM ET

Airman 1st Class Brandon Terhune (L) and Senior Airman Justin Meier work on a connecting hallway for a portable hospital in preparation for a national emergency like the feared bird flu pandemic in Topeka, Kansas, June 3, 2006. Kansans are practicing using a football field-sized tent as a portable hospital. Across the United States, local and state officials are spending millions of dollars to plot strategies for dealing with a still hypothetical -- but experts say inevitable -- pandemic flu crisis forecast to kill upwards of 2 million Americans. Picture taken June 3, 2006. To match feature BIRDFLU USA STATES. REUTERS/Craig Sands (UNITED STATES)

AP - Wed Jun 7, 11:47 AM ET

A government agricultural officer gives vaccinates a chicken in Medan, North Sumatera, Indonesia, Wednesday, June 7, 2006. Indonesia's health minister says she doesn't know what else she can do to raise public awareness about the dangers of bird flu, which has killed 37 people in her nation with no signs of slowing. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

AP - Fri Jun 9, 5:26 AM ET

A rooster stands on its cage at a market in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, June 9, 2006. Bird flu has killed at least 128 people worldwide since it started ravaging Asian poultry farms in late 2003 _ nearly a third of them in Indonesia, which has seen an explosion in human cases

AFP/File - Fri Jun 9, 11:47 AM ET

A farm attendant waits as dead birds are taken to a dump site to be burned, February 2006, in Kano. Authorities have started slaughtering birds in southeast Niger to stop the spread of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in the vast west African country.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)

Reuters - Thu Jun 8, 5:13 PM ET

Spectacled Eiders are seen in an undated file photo. Since 2003, the bird flu virus has killed 128 people in nine countries including Indonesia, Vietnam and China, according to the World Health Organization, but the highly pathogenic strain of bird flu has not been found in North America. (USGS/Handout/Reuters)

AFP/File - Fri Jun 9, 10:56 AM ET

A Hungarian man displays a phial of vaccine against the bird flu virus, H5N1 in Pilisborosjeno, Hungary, March 2006. Hungarian authorities have detected a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu in a flock of domestic geese although tests are yet to show whether it is the deadly H5N1 strain.(AFP/File/Attila Kisbenedek)

AP - Fri Jun 9, 5:26 PM ET

Corey Rossi, district supervisor for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's wildlife services in Alaska, right, and Gail Keirn collect fecal samples left from a Spectacled Eider duck at a marsh in Barrow, Alaska, Monday, June 5, 2006. The duck is one of the many species hunted by Alaska Natives and the sample will be tested for bird flu. Scientists have been posted in the nation's northernmost city of Barrow to look for early warning signs that migratory birds are bringing the deadly virus to North America. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)

Reuters - Fri Jun 9, 4:04 AM ET

Corey Rossi, an official from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, tests a bird for avian flu in Barrow, Alaska June 6, 2006. Picture taken June 6, 2006. REUTERS/Daisuke Wakabayashi

Spectacled Eiders in an undated file photo. Droppings from the large sea duck are among 50,000 field samples from wild birds that federal and local agencies aim to collect in America this year and test for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. (USGS/Handout/Reuters)

Reuters - Fri Jun 9, 4:04 AM ET

Corey Rossi (R) and Gail Keirn, officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, test a bird for avian flu in Barrow, Alaska June 6, 2006. Picture taken June 6, 2006. REUTERS/Daisuke Wakabayashi

AP - Fri Jun 9, 4:24 PM ET

A Spectacled Eider duck sits in the foreground as biologist and others collect fecal samples to test for bird flu on a marsh in Barrow, Alaska Monday, June 5, 2006. The duck is one of the many species hunted by Alaska Natives. Scientists have been posted in the nation's northernmost city of Barrow to look for early warning signs that migratory birds are bringing the deadly virus to North America. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)

AP - Fri Jun 9, 4:22 PM ET

Corey Rossi, district supervisor for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's wildlife services in Alaska takes a fecal sample from the wild goose with a swab as he tests for bird flu in Barrow, Alaska, Monday, June 5, 2006. Scientists have been posted in the nation's northernmost city of Barrow to look for early warning signs that migratory birds are bringing the deadly virus to North America. (AP Photo/Al Grillo

AP - Fri Jun 9, 5:04 PM ET

Corey Rossi, district supervisor for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's wildlife services in Alaska, right, and Gail Keirn collect fecal samples to test for bird flu from geese hunted by Alaska Natives in Barrow, Alaska, Monday, June 5, 2006. Scientists have been posted in the nation's northernmost city of Barrow to look for early warning signs that migratory birds are bringing the deadly virus to North America. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)

AP - Fri Jun 9, 4:47 PM ET

Jene Richards, 3, eats a piece of duck during the Patkotak whaling crew's apugauti, which celebrates a successful hunt, in Barrow, Alaska, Wednesday, June 7, 2006. Some of the ducks used in the traditional festival where swabbed for signs of bird flu before they were prepared. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)

AP - Fri Jun 9, 3:26 PM ET

Corey Rossi, district supervisor for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's wildlife services in Alaska, right, takes a fecal sample from the king eider duck with a swab as he tests for bird flu while Alaska Native hunter Ron Saganna watches in Barrow, Alaska Wednesday June 7, 2006. The duck will used in a soup during a traditional Eskimo feast to celebrate a successful whale hunt. Scientists have been posted in the nation's northernmost city of Barrow to look for early warning signs that migratory birds are bringing the deadly virus to North America. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)

AP - Fri Jun 9, 5:34 PM ET

Susan Hope, left, her daughter Nichole Hope, 12, and Laura Patkotak prepare a king eider duck for soup as they get ready for the Patkotak whaling crew's apugauti, which celebrates the crew's a successful hunt, in Barrow, Alaska Wednesday, June 7, 2006. A fecal sample that will be tested for bird flu was taken from the duck before preparation. Scientists have been posted in the nation's northernmost city of Barrow to look for early warning signs that migratory birds are bringing the deadly virus to North America. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)

AP - Fri Jun 9, 4:38 PM ET

Cheryl Neakok, left, and Billy Kittick, dish out duck soup during the Patkotak whaling crew's apugauti, which celebrates a successful hunt, in Barrow, Alaska, Wednesday, June 7, 2006. Some of the ducks used in the traditional festival where swabbed for signs of bird flu before they were prepared. Scientists have been posted in the nation's northernmost city of Barrow to look for early warning signs that migratory birds are bringing the deadly virus to North America. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)

AP - Fri Jun 9, 4:34 PM ET

Louisa Riley, left, dishes out duck soup during the Patkotak whaling crew's apugauti, which celebrates a successful hunt, in Barrow, Alaska, Wednesday, June 7, 2006. Some of the ducks used in the traditional festival where swabbed for signs of bird flu before they were prepared. Scientists have been posted in the nation's northernmost city of Barrow to look for early warning signs that migratory birds are bringing the deadly virus to North America. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)

Reuters - Mon Jun 12, 9:08 AM ET

Veterinary workers carry domestic fowl to test them for the bird flu virus in this December 7, 2005 file photo. Teams of veterinarians have been sent to destroy domestic poultry in northern Ukraine after the first appearance of bird flu in the region, Interfax Ukraine news agency reported on Monday. (Alexander Khudotioply/Reuters)

AFP/File - Wed Jun 14, 9:17 AM ET

Members of Hong Kong's Health Department wearing protective suits during an exercise held at Hong Kong International Airport to simulate the arrival bird flu, March 2006. China is investigating a suspected human bird flu case in the south of the country that has triggered alarm bells across the border in the regional economic hub of Hong Kong.(AFP/File/Alex Hofford)

AFP/File - Tue Jun 13, 8:27 AM ET

An undated file photo shows a worker preparing chickens on the processing line of Carnex group in Bekescsaba, some 200 kms southeast of the Hungarian capital, March 2006. Japan has announced a temporary suspension of imports of Hungarian poultry including foie gras over concerns about bird flu in the East European country.(AFP/File/Peter Farkask)

AFP/File - Tue Jun 13, 1:30 PM ET

A roadside livestock vendor waits for customers sitting among his chickens in Jakarta, April 2006. Authorities on Zanzibar have tightened up policing of a ban on poultry imports to avert a possible outbreak of bird flu after two people were arrested smuggling live birds.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)

AP - Wed Jun 14, 9:05 AM ET

A vendor sorts through chickens at a poultry market in Nanjing, eastern China's Jiangsu province Wednesday, June 14, 2006. A man suspected of having bird flu in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen may have contracted the disease two weeks ago when his wife brought home a freshly slaughtered chicken from a local market, the government said Tuesday. The man would become China's 19th reported human case if he is confirmed as having the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, Xinhua said. (AP Photo)

Reuters - Wed Jun 14, 7:50 AM ET

Chickens stand in cages at a market in Hong Kong June 14, 2006. The territory is worried about healthy looking chickens in China carrying the H5N1 bird flu virus as they are capable of silently infecting people, the city's health minister said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Bobby Yip (HONG KONG)

Reuters - Wed Jun 14, 8:22 AM ET

A veterinarian holds the carcass of a duck in the village of Peski in northern Ukraine June 14, 2006. Teams of veterinarians have been sent to destroy domestic poultry in northern Ukraine after the first appearance of bird flu in the region, Interfax Ukraine news agency reported on Monday. Avian flu had previously been detected late last year in the Crimea peninsula, a major stopover point on migratory routes jutting into the Black Sea in southern Ukraine. REUTERS/Igor Krol (UKRAINE)

Reuters - Wed Jun 14, 8:23 AM ET

Veterinarians put bird carcasses into a plastic sack in the village of Peski in northern Ukraine June 14, 2006. Teams of veterinarians have been sent to destroy domestic poultry in northern Ukraine after the first appearance of bird flu in the region, Interfax Ukraine news agency reported on Monday. Avian flu had previously been detected late last year in the Crimea peninsula, a major stopover point on migratory routes jutting into the Black Sea in southern Ukraine. REUTERS/Igor Krol (UKRAINE)

 

AFP/File - Tue Jun 13, 4:12 PM ET

Chickens for sale are placed on cages at a market in Hong Kong seen here in March 2006. A 31-year-old man is suspected to have contracted bird flu in southern China. The man would become China's 19th reported human case if he is confirmed as having the deadly H5N1 strain.(AFP/File/Anthony Dickson)

Reuters - Wed Jun 14, 10:46 PM ET

A security guard wears a mask as he stands on duty at Donghu Hospital in Shenzhen in China's Guangdong province June 13, 2006. A 31-year-old man, identified only by his surname Jiang, was suspected to have contracted the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in the boomtown of Shenzhen and was in critical condition in hospital, Xinhua news agency said. Picture taken June 13, 2006. CHINA OUT RREUTERS/China Daily (CHINA)

AP - Wed Jun 14, 8:42 PM ET

Zhang Shunxiang, left, a local epidemic prevention official from Shenzhen, speaks to media in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Wednesday, June 14, 2006. Epidemic prevention workers from Hong Kong set out to its neighboring Shenzhen city Wednesday for a joint effort to guard against avian influenza since a suspected human case of H5N1 emerged in Shenzhen. A man suspected of having bird flu in Shenzhen may have contracted the disease two weeks ago when his wife brought home a freshly slaughtered chicken from a local market, the government said. (AP Photo/Xinhua)

Reuters - Wed Jun 14, 11:09 PM ET

A vendor weaves hencoops among chickens at a poultry market in Nanjing, eastern China's Jiangsu province June 14, 2006. A 31-year-old man, identified only by his surname Jiang, was suspected to have contracted the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in the boomtown of Shenzhen and was in critical condition in hospital, Xinhua said. Picture taken June 14, 2006. CHINA OUT REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA)

Reuters - Thu Jun 15, 2:40 AM ET

An veterinarian wears a protective mask outside of a bird flu-affected poultry farm in Navapur village, India, February 19, 2006. The world may be unprepared for a bird flu pandemic, but U.S. researchers said on Wednesday they had come up with one low-tech answer to widespread shortages of medical equipment -- a mask made out of a T-shirt. (Adeel Halim/Reuters)

AFP - Thu Jun 15, 12:47 PM ET

Poultry on sale at a local market in Hong Kong. China has confirmed its 19th human case of bird flu, a 31-year-old man from the southern economic boom town of Shenzhen bordering Hong Kong who is critically ill in hospital.(AFP/Mike Clarke)

Reuters - Fri Jun 16, 2:34 AM ET

Slaughtered chickens and a duck are put on sale at a poultry market in Xiangfan, Hubei province, China June 16, 2006. China's ministry of health confirmed on Thursday a man in the southern province of Guangdong has contracted bird flu, bringing the country's total number of human infections to 19. CHINA OUT REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA)

AP - Fri Jun 16, 5:50 AM ET

Chicken vendors catch the live chickens at a market in Hong Kong Friday, June 16, 2006. A recent bird flu case involving a man in southern China may indicate that the H5N1 virus has mutated so that the infection risk is as high in summer as in winter, Hong Kong's health chief said Friday. China confirmed on Thursday that the 31-year-old man in the mainland city of Shenzhen, just across the border from Hong Kong, was critically ill with H5N1. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

AP - Fri Jun 16, 5:49 AM ET

Live chickens are for sale at a market in Hong Kong Friday, June 16, 2006. A recent bird flu case involving a man in southern China may indicate that the H5N1 virus has mutated so that the infection risk is as high in summer as in winter, Hong Kong's health chief said Friday. China confirmed on Thursday that the 31-year-old man in the mainland city of Shenzhen, just across the border from Hong Kong, was critically ill with H5N1. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

AP - Fri Jun 16, 5:51 AM ET

Chicken vendor holds live chickens at a market in Hong Kong Friday, June 16, 2006. A recent bird flu case involving a man in southern China may indicate that the H5N1 virus has mutated so that the infection risk is as high in summer as in winter, Hong Kong's health chief said Friday. China confirmed on Thursday that the 31-year-old man in the mainland city of Shenzhen, just across the border from Hong Kong, was critically ill with H5N1. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung

 

AFP/File - Fri Jun 16, 7:26 AM ET

An Indonesian doctor treats a patient who is under observation for the bird flu virus at a Jakarta hospital in October 2005. A senior Indonesian health official has confirmed that a 14-year-old boy has died of bird flu.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)

 

AFP/File - Fri Jun 16, 1:43 PM ET

A worker holding slaughtered chickens in Jakarta, seen here in January 2006. "Avian flu and a possible human pandemic are a real threat. Though the media headlines have disappeared the risk has not," says Dr Pierre Duplessis, The International Federation of Red Cross's bird flu chief.(AFP/File/Adek Berry)

 

AFP/File - Fri Jun 16, 7:36 AM ET

Hong Kong's health chief York Chow, seen here in March 2006, has warned that bird flu may have become more virulent -- increasing the risk to humans -- following the latest infection in a neighbouring Chinese city.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)

Reuters - Fri Jun 16, 5:41 PM ET

Snow geese fly over western Canada in an undated file photo. Canada has detected a case of H5 avian flu in the eastern province of Prince Edward Island and plans further testing over the weekend to determine the strain and virulency, a provincial health officer announced on Friday. (Andy Clark/Reuters)

AFP/File - Fri Jun 16, 11:23 AM ET

Emirati medical staff conducting a bird flu emergency drill in Abu Dhabi, on June 3. The meagre response by donors to a Red Cross/Red Crescent appeal to help prepare for a feared flu pandemic sparked by avian influenza is preventing the organisation from stepping up efforts.(AFP/File)

 

AFP - Fri Jun 16, 4:28 PM ET

The body of a dead ostrich lays in a farm's field in Szank about 150 kms south of Budapest. More than 440,000 farm birds were exterminated in southern Hungary in recent days as the H5 virus bird flu strain was identified.(AFP/Attila Kisbenedek)

 

AFP - Fri Jun 16, 7:36 AM ET

A vendor sells prepared chickens at a poultry market in Hong Kong. Hong Kong's health chief has warned that bird flu may have become more virulent -- increasing the risk to humans -- following the latest infection in a neighbouring Chinese city.(AFP/Mike Clarke)

AFP/File - Sat Jun 17, 6:51 PM ET

A sanitary worker in protective clothing tries to catch a pheasant with a soldier's help in the Anoumabo suburb of Abidjan during bird culling, May 2006. North Africa lacks the means to effectively monitor and prevent the arrival of bird flu, experts told a meeting here this week.(AFP/File/Issouf Sanogo)

AFP/ATAR/File - Tue Jun 20, 8:20 AM ET

A worker works on a a chicken farm in Indonesia, May 2006. Indonesia has confirmed its 39th death from bird flu after tests by a WHO-affiliated laboratory showed a 14-year-old boy had died of the virus.(AFP/ATAR/File)

AFP/File - Mon Jun 19, 3:42 AM ET

Health officials burn dead pigs and fowl infected with bird flu near Jakarta. Indonesia must cull more birds in areas where the deadly bird flu virus is found if it is to rein in the virus which has killed at least 38 people in the country, experts said(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)

AFP/File - Mon Jun 19, 10:24 AM ET

A vendor stands next to cooked chickens at a market in Hong Kong on June 16. China has announced a new bird flu outbreak, at poultry farms in its northern province of Shanxi.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)

AP - Mon Jun 19, 5:20 PM ET

Dr. Dennis Senne, right, a poultry specialist with the USDA's National National Veterinary Services Lab, speaks during a news conference as Dr. David Suarez, research leader with the Southeast Poultry Research Lab, looks on, Monday, June 19, 2006, in Ames, Iowa. Twenty-four scientists from countries including Argentina, Mozambique, Lebanon at Taiwan, were taking part in the Avian Influenza Diagnostic Training Course at Iowa State University's College of Veterinary Medicine. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Dr. Anna Rose Ademun Okurut, with Uganda's Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, listens during the Avian Influenza Diagnostic Training Course at Iowa State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, Monday, June 19, 2006, in Ames, Iowa. Twenty-four scientists from countries including Argentina, Mozambique, Lebanon at Taiwan, were taking part in the course. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

AFP/File - Mon Jun 19, 8:13 AM ET

A delicatessen employee displays canned foie gras at a meat shop in a Tokyo department store in February 2006. Japan has lifted a ban on imports of French poultry including foie gras following a four-month suspension due to concerns about bird flu.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)

Reuters - Tue Jun 20, 2:53 PM ET

Shore birds fly past washed up debris on the beach at the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge, located outside Cameron, Louisiana October 5, 2005. The United States does not have adequate measures in place to survey and monitor for avian influenza, including the deadly H5N1 strain that has killed 130 people overseas, the Agriculture Department's inspector general said on Tuesday. (Charles W. Luzier/Reuters)

AFP/File - Tue Jun 20, 8:59 PM ET

Geese graze in a park. Tests have confirmed that a poultry flock in Canada has not been infected by the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu, an official at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said.(AFP/File/Jean-Philippe Ksiazek)

AFP/File - Tue Jun 20, 2:19 PM ET

Zambian authorities are investigating a possible bird flu outbreak after more than 40 wild birds were found dead in the tourist resort of Livingstone at the Victoria Falls, an official said.(AFP/File/Kambou Sia)

AP - Wed Jun 21, 4:14 AM ET

A duck seller counts money at a market in Jakarta, Indonesia Wednesday, June 21, 2006. Indonesia needs donors to give it US$50 million (euro40 million) over the next three years to establish a system capable of fighting bird flu in poultry, a U.N. animal health expert said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyah)

AP - Wed Jun 21, 4:14 AM ET

Indonesian men play with roosters at a market in Jakarta, Indonesia Wednesday, June 21, 2006. Indonesia needs donors to give it US$50 million (euro40 million) over the next three years to establish a system capable of fighting bird flu in poultry, a U.N. animal health expert said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyah)

Reuters - Wed Jun 21, 9:12 AM ET

Indonesian health officials take a fecal sample from a chicken in central Jakarta on February 24, 2006. Many people who contracted the H5N1 bird flu virus in Indonesia were ignorant and never warned about the disease and children are the ones most vulnerable, medical experts said on Wednesday. (Supri/Reuters)

AFP - Wed Jun 21, 9:51 AM ET

A boy plays with pigeons at his home in Jakarta. An expert from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said disaster-prone Indonesia cannot fight bird flu on its own and needs support from the international community.(AFP/Bay Ismoyo)

AFP/File - Wed Jun 21, 11:38 AM ET

A duck at a poultry farm near Bordeaux, France receives an injection against the H5N1 virus in February 2006. The European Commission has said that the poultry industry in 14 member countries stood to benefit from EU aid worth 50-65 million euros to the battle the effects of bird flu.(AFP/File/Jean-Pierre Muller)

AFP/File - Wed Jun 21, 1:22 PM ET

Top health officials from around Southeast Asia opened a three-day meeting in Myanmar on combating bird flu, one day after Indonesia announced the virus had killed another person. Lieutenant General Thein Sein, seen here in December 2005, said the ministers would discuss "rapid response and pandemic preparedness for avian influenza."(AFP/File/Saeed Khan)

AP - Thu Jun 22, 2:58 AM ET

Malaysian vendor prepares chicken at a fresh market in Kuala Lumpur, Friday, June 22, 2006. Malaysia officially declared itself free of bird flu Thursday, three months after the last outbreak of the virulent H5N1 strain was detected in chickens in a northern village. (AP Photo/Lai)

Reuters - Wed Jun 21, 11:39 PM ET

Workers vaccinate chickens against bird flu at a poultry farm in Sokuluk village, some 30 kilometers (18 miles) west from Bishkek, June 20, 2006. (Vladimir Pirogov/Reuters

AP - Thu Jun 22, 5:04 AM ET

A Chinese child walks by a cage full of chickens at a poultry market in Nanjing, eastern China's Jiangsu province, Tuesday June 20, 2006. Chinese scientists in a research letter in the New England Journal of Medicine said that a man initially thought to have SARS actually died of bird flu in November 2003 _ two years before the communist country reported any human bird flu infections on the mainland to the World Health Organization. (AP Photo/EyePress)

AP - Thu Jun 22, 6:09 AM ET

A Chinese health worker disinfects an area quarantined after reports of a bird flu outbreak among poultry, as a elderly Chinese woman looks on in Changzhi city, northern China's Shanxi Province, Tuesday June 20, 2006. Chinese scientists in a research letter in the New England Journal of Medicine said that a man initially thought to have SARS actually died of bird flu in November 2003 _ two years before the communist country reported any human bird flu infections on the mainland to the World Health Organization. (AP Photo /EyePress)

AFP/File - Thu Jun 22, 6:47 AM ET

Government veterinarians wearing protective suits catch a chicken during a culling operation in Penang state, following an outbreak in northern Malaysia, March 2006. Malaysia has declared itself free of bird flu, saying there had been no outbreaks of the deadly disease for the past three months but it would remain on high alert.(AFP/File)

AFP/File - Thu Jun 22, 6:51 AM ET

A veterinary services worker holds up a pair of chickens by their legs during a culling operation at Pasir Wardieburn village in the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, February 2006. Malaysia has declared itself free of bird flu, saying there had been no outbreaks of the deadly disease for the past three months, but added it would remain on high alert.(AFP/File/Tengku Bahar)

AFP/File - Thu Jun 22, 12:18 PM ET

A worker at a poultry farm collects eggs on the outskirts of the Myanmar capital city of Yangon, April 2006. Southeast Asian nations have agreed to extend their joint system for monitoring outbreaks of disease, amid worries about bird flu after another death this week in Indonesia.(AFP/File/Khin Maung Win)

AFP - Thu Jun 22, 12:28 PM ET

A man tries to remove feathers from a hen in Lagos, February 2006. West African ministers will meet in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Friday to develop measures aimed at fighting the deadly avian influenza, an official statement said.(AFP/Pius Utomi Ekpei)

NEJM - Thu Jun 22, 1:52 PM ET

Eight Chinese scientists have asked leading US medical journal The New England Journal of Medicine to withdraw a letter alleging that China knew about a human case of bird flu two years before the first case was officially announced.(NEJM)

AP - Thu Jun 22, 4:24 PM ET

Lab technicians Jaclyn Casavant, left, and Diane Armstrong conduct tests for bird flu at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center Poultry Laboratory in Kennett Square, Pa., Wednesday, June 21, 2006. Poultry farmers have been regularly sending egg and blood samples for testing at the avian medicine lab ever since the state had a severe bird flu outbreak in 1983-84, said Sherrill Davison, who heads the facility. The New Bolton Center has been ground zero for animal lovers and horse racing enthusiasts since May 20, when Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro was brought in for lifesaving surgery after shattering his right hind leg in the Preakness. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

AFP/File - Fri Jun 23, 10:39 AM ET

A masked man feeds chickens on a farm in Maradi, southeast of Niger. West African ministers have met in Nigeria's capital to develop measures aimed at fighting the deadly avian influenza in the region.(AFP/File/Issouf Sanogo)

AFP/File - Fri Jun 23, 10:03 AM ET

An Indonesian doctor takes examines one of eight family members who was confirmed to be infected with H5N1 in Medan in May 2006. The World Health Organisation has said the latest instance of human-to-human transmission of bird flu, which was confirmed in Indonesia, was the first to be revealed by laboratory tests.(AFP/File/Atar)

AP - Fri Jun 23, 6:23 AM ET

An Indonesian youth holds race pigeons in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, June 23, 2006. A World Health Organization investigation showed that the H5N1 virus mutated slightly in an Indonesian family cluster on Sumatra island, but bird flu experts insisted Friday it did not increase the possibility of a human pandemic. (AP Photo/ Irwin Fedriansyah)

AFP/File - Fri Jun 23, 10:03 AM ET

A graphic shows the latest worldwide death toll from bird flu since 2003. The World Health Organisation has said the latest instance of human-to-human transmission of bird flu, which was confirmed in Indonesia, was the first to be revealed by laboratory tests.(AFP/File/Martin Megino)

AFP/File - Fri Jun 23, 11:34 AM ET

A government agent in protective clothing disinfects a chicken cage in Dan Barde village, Nigeria in March 2006. West African ministers have met in Nigeria's capital to develop measures aimed at fighting the outbreak of deadly avian influenza in the region.(AFP/File/Issouf Sanogo)

AFP/fILE - Fri Jun 23, 6:05 PM ET

Ivorian soldiers help sanitary workers to capture poultry 24 May 2006 in the Anoumabo quarter in a Abidjan. West African ministers adopted a plan for fighting the outbreak of deadly avian influenza in the region and preventing its spread to humans.(AFP/fILE/Issouf Sanogo)

AFP/Getty Images - Fri Jun 23, 9:23 PM ET

Sunset : Pelicans fly over breeding colonies of black skimmers and various terns at sunrise at the Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge, a major stop for birds on the Pacific Flyway, near Calipatria, California. Californians are bracing for the possible arrival of the H5N1 bird flu to the West Coast later this summer in what could be the first sign of the deadly virus in the US, as North American and Asian birds mingle in Alaska before their southward migration. (AFP/Getty Images/David Mcnew)

Reuters - Tue Jun 20, 1:05 PM ET

A heron looks for a place to land in tree already crowded with other herons on a peninsula extending into Hamilton Harbor in a July 31, 2004 file photo. A case of bird flu in the eastern Canadian province of Prince Edward Island was not the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain, a Canadian source said on Tuesday. (Andy Clark/Reuters)

Reuters - Sun Jun 25, 7:46 AM ET

Young ducks drink at a farm in Xiangfan, central China's Hubei province June 25, 2006. A researcher who reported that a Chinese man may have died from avian influenza before anyone else in China was known to have the disease denied on Friday he tried to have the report retracted, according to the U.S. journal that published the report. CHINA OUT REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA)

AFP/file - Tue Jun 27, 12:25 AM ET

Freshly-slaughtered chickens on sale are displayed at a wet market in Kuala Lumpur. A bird flu pandemic would shrink Asian economies by 6-9 percent as strict quarantine measures impacted on global trade and sickness and death caused productivity to plummet, the Australian government's economic adviser has predicted.(AFP/file/Tengku Bahar)

AFP/File - Thu Jun 29, 9:34 AM ET

The H5N1 strain of avian flu is seen through a nuclear microscope at a laboratory in Padova, Italy. A major conference on avian flu, convened amidst a rising death toll among humans and a widening geographical spread among birds, warned of weak defences and worrying gaps in knowledge about the lethal virus.(AFP/File/Michele Crosera)