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An Indonesian man transports live chickens to a market in Jakarta. Apr. 2006. (INDONESIA) Bird flu - THREAT OF A GLOBAL PANDEMIC - Overview |
6:16 p.m. EST, February 12, 2007 . Firdaus Baskara, 8, of suburban Jakarta, Indonesia, survived bird flu. He's believed to have contracted the illness from his aunt Most bird flu victims under 40 : WHO (INDONESIA) |
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AFP/File - Thu Mar 1, 1:46 AM ET A worker carries skinned chickens to a market on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar in 2006. Military-ruled Myanmar confirmed Thursday an outbreak of bird flu in its biggest city Yangon a day after declaring the case to international authorities, but said nothing to its own people.(AFP/File/Maung Win Khin) (MYANMAR) |
Thursday March 1, 06:07 AM A health official inspects a poultry house in Takahashi city in Okayama prefecture, western Japan. Authorities in Japan have declared an end to recent bird flu outbreaks, and lifted a ban on transferring chickens and eggs in the areas affected. (JAPAN) |
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AFP/Mamat - Thu Mar 1, 3:39 AM ET Indonesian officials vaccinate a chicken in Surabaya in 2006. Indonesia and the World Health Organisation are close to ending a dispute that led the country worst-hit by avian flu to stop sending virus samples abroad for key tests, a minister has said. Indonesia -- where the virus has killed 64 people, the world's highest national toll -- took the action in December over concerns the samples could be used by drugs firms to develop costly vaccines which would then be sold back to affected nations.(AFP/Mamat) (INDONESIA) |
AFP/File - Thu Mar 1, 7:11 AM ET A vendor selling ducks counts her earning at a market in Changsha, in the China's central province of Hunan, August 2006. A Chinese farmer is critically ill with the human form of bird flu, state media reported Thursday as Myanmar confirmed the virus in poultry, underlining the enduring nature of the threat.(AFP/File/Liu Jin) (MYANMAR) |
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AFP - Thu Mar 1, 1:37 PM ET A Kuwaiti municipality official collects birds from a shop as part of measures to combat an outbreak of bird flu, in Kuwait City. Two new cases of the H5N1 strain of bird flu have been detected in Kuwait, one in a chicken and the other in a falcon, a health ministry official said on Thursday.(AFP/Yasser al-Zayyat) (KUWAIT) |
Thu, 01 Mar 2007 4:30 AM PST A cull of 160,000 birds was carried out in Suffolk, UK, Saturday, 10 February 2007. Defra today announced changes to the disease control measures put in place to tackle the H5N1 outbreak in Suffolk (UK) |
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Thu, 01 Mar 2007 4:30 PM PST Workers cull the turkeys at the Suffolk farm Taxpayers may have to pay Bernard Matthews as much as £670,000 in compensation for turkeys culled after bird flu was discovered at one of his company's factory farms. (UK) |
AFP/File - Fri Mar 2, 8:38 AM ET People look at caged birds at a bird market in Hong Kong, January 2007. A bird found dead in Hong Kong last month had the H5N1 bird flu virus, authorities have said.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke) (HONG KONG) |
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AFP - Fri Mar 2, 1:57 AM ET Graphic showing the number of deaths caused by bird flu in Asia since 2003, as health experts warn that dispite successes in the battle battle against the disease the threat of a pandemic remains real in the region. (WHO) |
AFP - Fri Mar 2, 3:24 PM ET A man stands looking at ducks at his private farm in Phu Xuyen district, Northern province of Ha Tay, Vietnam. Vietnam on Friday said bird flu had struck a flock of ducks in the Mekong delta, just a day after the country lifted a ban on hatching waterfowl that was imposed in 2005.(AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam) (VIETNAM) |
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AFP/File - Fri Mar 2, 3:22 PM ET A Buddhist nun feeds pigeons at a roadside in downtown Yangon in 2006. Military-ruled Myanmar broke its silence Friday about an outbreak of bird flu in its biggest city Yangon, saying wild crows and sparrows may have carried the H5N1 virus to a poultry farm.(AFP/File/Khin Maung Win) (MYANMAR) |
AFP/File - Sat Mar 3, 1:54 AM ET A worker carries skinned chickens from a market outside the Myanmar capital Yangon, in 2006. Military-ruled Myanmar on Saturday confirmed three more outbreaks of bird flu in Yangon, and urged people to report any suspicious bird deaths. The state-controlled New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported that the deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza had been discovered in the southern township of Thingangyun, in Insein township in the north, and in Hlinethaya, a western suburb.(AFP/File/Khin Maung Win) (MYANMAR) |
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AFP/File - Sun Mar 4, 7:23 AM ET A vendor sits among chicken eggs for sale at a local market in downtown Vientiane, October 2005. A 42-year-old Laos woman believed to have contracted the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus died in hospital in the capital Vientiane, the World Health Organisation has said.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) (LAOS) |
AFP/File - Sun Mar 4, 4:47 AM ET A man carries chickens to a market in Yangon, 2 March. Poultry sellers in Yangon have reported a slump in sales following a fresh outbreak of bird flu, and said they were ready to close their markets as part of government efforts to contain the virus.(AFP/File/Khin Maung Win) (MYANMAR) |
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Vietnam Sun, 04 Mar 2007 1:38 AM PST Ducks on farm test positive for bird flu in Mekong Delta - According to the Animal Health Department, the department will import 150 million doses of vaccines for the first vaccination drive in 2007. Only 25 million doses have been supplied to Mekong provinces and the supply of another 20 million doses of vaccines will arrive on March 10-13 to meet the growing demand. (VIETNAM) |
Reuters - Mon Mar 5, 10:45 AM ET A sanitary worker arranges her mask inside a quarantined area in Bucharest May 21, 2006. Scientists plan to exhume within the next five months the body of a British diplomat who died in 1919 of the Spanish flu, in a move they hope will provide vital clues on how to fight any future pandemic. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel (UK) |
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AFP/File - Mon Mar 5, 1:28 AM ET Railway staff remove a "dead bird" from a train carriage during a health and safety drill in Hong Kong in February. Researchers in the United States believe they have found an easily-produced vaccine for the killer H5N1 bird flu that could halt a feared pandemic, a media report said Monday. Dr David Ho of the Aaron Diamond Aids Research Centre in New York says the vaccine would be "easy to produce, fast to produce and as broadly protective as possible", according to Hong Kong's South China Morning Post newspaper.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke) (HONG KONG) |
AFP/File - Mon Mar 5, 8:13 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. Malaysia is on high alert for a possible outbreak of bird flu following fresh reports of the deadly virus around the region, a senior veterinary department official said Monday.(AFP/File/Tengku Bahar) (MALAYSIA) |
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Reuters - Mon Mar 5, 8:55 AM ET A doctor (L) vaccinates a volunteer against bird flu in Moscow, May 30, 2006. Top virologists called on Monday for a greater effort in developing effective vaccines against a potential flu pandemic and warned that all contingency plans would be in vain without them. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters) By Tan Ee Lyn (RUSSIA) |
Mon, 05 Mar 2007 8:17 AM PST Members of the Shijiazhuang, China medical clinic oral swab a 'patient' during an anti-avian flu drill. (File photo © AP Images) (CHINA) |
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AFP/File - Mon Mar 5, 1:28 AM ET Railway staff remove a "dead bird" from a train carriage during a health and safety drill in Hong Kong in February. Researchers in the United States believe they have found an easily-produced vaccine for the killer H5N1 bird flu that could halt a feared pandemic, a media report said Monday. Dr David Ho of the Aaron Diamond Aids Research Centre in New York says the vaccine would be "easy to produce, fast to produce and as broadly protective as possible", according to Hong Kong's South China Morning Post newspaper.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke) (USA) |
Reuters - Mon Mar 5, 6:17 PM ET Chickens are seen at a hennery on the outskirts of Baokang, central China's Hubei province January 30, 2007. China's southern Guangdong Province is the source of the dangerous H5N1 avian flu virus, according to a genetic analysis of the virus published on Monday. (Stringer/Reuters) (CHINA) |
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(Reuters) March 5, 2007 10:28 p.m. EST A quarantine official inspects day-old chicks to be exported to Hong Kong at the Wenjindu Port on July 6, 2006 in Shenzhen of Guangdong Province, China. Guangdong appears to be the source of renewed waves of the H5N1 strain, which has killed or forced the destruction of hundreds of millions of birds, the team at the University of California Irvine reported. (CHINA) |
AFP/File - Tue Mar 6, 1:26 AM ET A man inspects eggs at a private poultry farm in Phu Xuyen district, Northern province of Ha Tay, Vietnam, a few days ago. Bird flu has struck a chicken farm outside the Vietnamese capital, a provincial veterinary official said Tuesday, raising fears the virus will spread to Hanoi and through the country's north.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) (VIETNAM) |
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Reuters - Tue Mar 6, 5:03 AM ET A pharmacist displays Swiss drug maker Roche's Tamiflu bird flu anti-viral tablets in this February 18, 2006 file photo. Concerns that Tamiflu -- seen as effective against a possible pandemic triggered by bird flu -- may induce fatal side effects are growing in Japan after two people who took it fell to their deaths last month. REUTERS/ Danilo Krstanovic. (But Tamiflu has come under investigation in Japan after dozens of people who took the drug killed themselves.) (JAPAN) |
Reuters - Tue Mar 6, 9:37 AM ET Egyptian boys play with ducks in the village of Ezbet Sidi Omer near Cairo March 6, 2007. In the village of Ezbet Sidi Omer, villagers raise birds on their rooftops despite fears of the deadly bird flu virus. REUTERS/Nasser Nuri (EGYPT) |
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Reuters - Tue Mar 6, 9:37 AM ET An Egyptian boy holds a chicken in the village of Ezbet Sidi Omer near Cairo March 6, 2007. In the village of Ezbet Sidi Omer, villagers raise birds on their rooftops despite fears of the deadly bird flu virus. REUTERS/Nasser Nuri (EGYPT) |
Tuesday March 6, 08:20 PM Birds play on ornate rooftop designs of a temple in Hohhot, in China's northwest Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Poultry in the Tibetan capital Lhasa have tested positive for bird flu, state media said on Tuesday. (CHINA) |
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AFP/File - Tue Mar 6, 3:03 PM ET Chicken are kept in a cage at a poultry shop in a local Hong Kong market. US researchers have reconstructed the evolution of avian flu and its spread over the past decade from its first origins in southern China, according to a new study.(AFP/File/Samantha Sin) (CHINA) |
AFP/File - Tue Mar 6, 7:59 AM ET A parrot is seen at a Kuwaiti shop for birds in Kuwait City, October 2006. A team of experts from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has arrived in Kuwait where authorities said the number of bird flu cases in the emirate has risen to 52.(AFP/File/Yasser Al Zayyat) (KUWAIT) |
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Reuters - Wed Mar 7, 1:22 AM ET A worker collects eggs at a hennery on the outskirts of Changzhi, northern China's Shanxi province March 7, 2007. China has suffered an outbreak of H5N1 avian flu among poultry in remote Tibet, while the virus also struck down thousands of wild birds in the region, state media and animal health monitors reported late on Tuesday. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA) |
AFP/File - Wed Mar 7, 2:59 AM ET A statue faces the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva. Health officials in a Chinese province have denied the findings of a US university study that said their region was the source of many strains of the deadly bird flu virus. According to the WHO, 275 people have fallen ill with the H5N1 virus and a total of 167 people have died.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini) (CHINA) |
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AFP - Wed Mar 7, 5:40 AM ET A farmer unloads chickens at a local poultry market in the northern province of Ha Tay. The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been reported in Vietnam's capital Hanoi after more than 1,000 young chickens died of the virus, the ministry of agriculture said.(AFP) (VIETNAM) |
AP - Wed Mar 7, 12:44 AM ET A vulture looks out from its caring room at Kasetsart university pet hospital in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, March 7, 2007. The vulture which normally is not found in Thailand has been nursed back to health by veterinarians, after apparently getting lost in late December and ending up dehydrated in Chanthaburi province. Thai Airways International has agreed to transport a juvenile Cinereous Vulture to Beijing on March 21 as part of an effort to return the rare bird to its natural habitat in Mongolia, airline officials said. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong) (THAILAND) |
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AFP/File - Thu Mar 8, 3:26 AM ET A file photo of a bird vendor on his way to a Buddhist pagoda in Vientiane. Laos on Thursday announced its first confirmed human death from the H5N1 bird flu strain, a 15-year-old girl, days after reporting that the virus was believed to have killed an adult woman. The Lao health ministry "has confirmed the death of the first person announced positive for the H5N1 avian influenza virus," it said in a statement issued jointly with the World Health Organisation (WHO).(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) (LAOS) |
AP - Thu Mar 8, 4:31 AM ET Wearing a protective suit, South Korean officials collect blood serum from ducks at a duck farm in Naju, south of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 8, 2007. A bird flu outbreak has struck a duck farm in Chonan, an official said Thursday, but it was not immediately clear if it was caused by the H5N1 virus, which can be deadly to humans. (AP Photo/ Yonhap, Hyung Min-woo) (SOUTH KOREA) |
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AFP/File - Thu Mar 8, 10:45 AM ET A veterinarian examines a falcon for avian influenza at Abu Dhabi's Falcon Hospital in 2005. Air passengers suspected of carrying the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu might have to undergo blood tests before being allowed entry into the Gulf emirate of Dubai.(AFP/File) (SAUDI ARABIA) |
AFP/File - Thu Mar 8, 1:51 PM ET Specialised medical staff in the United Arab Emirates conduct a bird flu emergency drill in Abu Dhabi, June 2006. Air passengers suspected of carrying the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu might have to undergo blood tests before being allowed entry into the Gulf emirate of Dubai, a newspaper reported Thursday.(AFP/File) (SAUDI ARABIA) |
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AFP - Thu Mar 8, 3:26 AM ET Graphic showing bird flu deaths in Asia since 2003. Laos on Thursday announced its first confirmed human death from the H5N1 bird flu strain, a 15-year-old girl, days after reporting that the virus was believed to have killed an adult woman. The Lao health ministry "has confirmed the death of the first person announced positive for the H5N1 avian influenza virus," it said in a statement issued jointly with the World Health Organisation (LAOS) |
AFP - Thu Mar 8, 3:26 AM ET An Afghan woman from the Uzbek ethnic group feeds pigeons in front of the shrine of Hazrat-i-Ali in Mazar-i-Sharif. The Food and Agriculture Organisation ruled out bird flu in two Afghans admitted to hospital in a province with the deadly virus, the United Nation said Wednesday.(AFP/Shah Marai) (AFGHANISTAN) |
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AFP/File - Thu Mar 8, 10:31 PM ET Ducks fly down to a pond at a private farm in Phu Xuyen district, Northern province of Ha Tay, March 2007. Bird flu has spread to a fifth location in Vietnam in a new wave of outbreaks since late February, hitting a flock of ducks in the southern Mekong Delta, according to authorities.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) (VIETNAM) |
AFP - Fri Mar 9, 2:15 AM ET Villagers wear masks at the hamlet Hau Duong which was hit by a bird flu outbreak, on the outskirts of Hanoi. Bird flu has spread to a fifth location in Vietnam in a new wave of outbreaks since late February, hitting a flock of ducks in the southern Mekong Delta.(AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam) (VIETNAM) |
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BBC News Fri, 09 Mar 2007 3:10 AM PST Bernard Matthews started appearing in television adverts in 1981. (UK) |
Nearly 160,000 turkeys were culled at the plant in February. (UK) |
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AFP/File - Fri Mar 9, 3:22 PM ET Parakeets huddle together in a box as they await cleaning to be sold as pets at a bird market in Hong Kong, 08 March 2007. Another bird in Hong Kong has tested positive for the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, authorities said Friday.(AFP/File/Tengku Bahar) (HONG KONG) |
Thu, 08 Mar 2007 9:09 PM PST Sir Mark Sykes, a senior diplomat and Boer war veteran, died of Spanish flu in a hotel room in 1919, aged 39. The key to this new spurt of scientific interest is the sealed lead coffin that holds his body -- and possibly preserved remnants of the Spanish flu virus itself -- in a cemetery at St. Mary's Church, Sledmere, in northeast England. All six of Sykes' grandchildren gave their permission for the exhumation of their grandfather's body. (UK) |
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AFP/File - Sun Mar 11, 7:31 PM ET Wild duck in a pond. South Korea said Sunday it culled more than 35,000 ducks at poultry farms in the centre of the country in order to curb a new bird flu outbreak confirmed last week.(AFP/File/Gabriel Bouys) (SOUTH KOREA) |
AFP/File - Sun Mar 11, 7:31 PM ET YANGON, Myanmar - A man carries chickens to a market in Yangon, 2 March. The U.S. has provided Myanmar with $600,000 worth of equipment for bird flu prevention after fresh outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 virus were discovered on poultry farms, state media said Sunday. (MYANMAR) |
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AFP/File - Mon Mar 12, 2:20 PM ET A worker carries skinned chickens from one of the main chicken markets on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, in 2006. The United States has given 600,000 dollars to the UN's agricultural agency to fight bird flu in military-ruled Myanmar, after the deadly H5N1 virus was detected in Yangon.(AFP/File/Khin Maung Win) (MYANMAR) |
AFP/File - Mon Mar 12, 2:21 PM ET An Indonesian health worker sprays disinfectant on chickens in Surabaya, East Java, in January 2007. A 20-year-old woman in Indonesia is critically ill with bird flu, health officials said Monday, becoming the 85th human case in the country worst hit by the deadly virus.(AFP/File/Mamat ) (INDONESIA) |
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Mon, 12 Mar 2007 6:26 AM PDT 04/24/2006 © Sultan Massodi/IRIN - Chickens and birds continue to be sold openly on the Kabul market. (AFGHANISTAN) |
Reuters - Tue Mar 13, 9:38 PM ET An Egyptian boy holds a chicken in the village of Ezbet Sidi Omer near Cairo March 6, 2006. Health officials say the cultural practice of keeping birds at home, often in secret, is aiding the spread of bird flu in the most populous Arab country, where 24 people have contracted the disease since it emerged in Egyptian poultry a year ago. (Nasser Nuri/Reuters) (EGYPT) |
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Reuters - Tue Mar 13, 9:08 AM ET A worker separates chicks into "Grade A" and "Grade B" categories where the latter is thrown into the funnel at the Wadi Hatcheries in Sadat City March 8, 2007. The Wadi Hatcheries hatches 400,000 chicks daily and is the largest hatchling factory in the Middle East. Since bird flu appeared in Egypt, workers have started manually inoculating day-old chicks, born from disinfected eggs laid by vaccinated birds, after plant management determined that automated vaccination could miss some chicks. Picture taken March 8, 2007. To match feature BIRDFLU-EGYPT/ REUTERS/Tara Todras-Whitehill (EGYPT) |
AP Wednesday, March 14, 2007 11:43 AM EDT A hospital staff monitors the vital signs of a suspected bird flu patient at a hospital in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 13, 2007. The 20-year-old Indonesian woman was in critical condition after contracting bird flu, a Health Ministry official said. The H5N1 strain of bird flu has prompted the slaughter of millions of birds across Asia since late 2003, and caused the deaths of at least 168 people worldwide, more than a third of them in Indonesia, according to the World Health Organization. (AP Photo/Trisnadi) (INDONESIA) |
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AFP - Wed Mar 14, 2:58 AM ET India has banned imports of live poultry from countries where bird flu has been reported as a precautionary measure, a government statement said.(AFP/Bay Ismoyo) (INDIA) |
AFP/File - Wed Mar 14, 12:18 PM ET An Egyptian worker holds up a chicken at a market in Alexandria, February 2006. Bird flu has been detected on nine farms across Egypt where the poultry had been vaccinated against the virus, an agriculture ministry official said on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki) (EGYPT) |
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Reuters - Wed Mar 14, 4:33 PM ET A worker vaccinates a day-old chick against bird flu at the Wadi Hatcheries in Sadat City, March 8, 2007. A ten-year-old Egyptian girl has tested positive for bird flu, becoming the 25th human case in the most populous Arab country, a World Health Organization official said on Wednesday. (Tara Todras-Whitehill/Reuters) (EGYPT) |
AFP - Wed Mar 14, 4:12 PM ET A chicken is seen at a chicken farm in Yangon. Military-ruled Myanmar warned Wednesday of two more possible outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in Yangon, the country's largest city, where four outbreaks have been confirmed this month.(AFP/Khin Maung Win) (MYANMAR) |
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AFP/File - Wed Mar 14, 4:03 PM ET Indian government health workers cull chickens suspected of being infected with bird flu in the village of Lasur, March 2006. India has banned imports of live poultry from countries where bird flu has been reported as a precautionary measure, a government statement said.(AFP/File/Sebastian D'Souza) (INDIA) |
AFP/File - Wed Mar 14, 4:09 PM ET Indonesia wants a legal guarantee that bird flu samples sent to the World Health Organisation will not be exploited for profit before sharing them with the body for tests, Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari, seen here in May 2006, said.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) (INDONESIA) |
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Reuters - Thu Mar 15, 10:49 AM ET Greater Snow Geese fly across the Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area near Quebec City October 13, 2006, after stopping to feed on American bulrush rhizomes. The geese fly to the East Coast of the U.S. during their migration period. It is unlikely that a sick bird would be able to carry the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus into the United States through the Pacific and Atlantic flyways, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. (Mathieu Belanger/Reuters) (USA) |
AFP/File - Fri Mar 16, 11:03 AM ET Laos has confirmed its second human death from bird flu, a woman who died earlier this month, after results from a lab used by the World Health Organisation (WHO).(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo) (LAOS) |
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AFP/File - Fri Mar 16, 11:06 AM ET An Indonesian doctor treats a patient who is under observation for the bird flu virus at a Jakarta hospital in 2005. Bird flu has killed a 32-year-old man in Indonesia, taking the death toll in the nation worst hit by the disease to 65.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo) (INDONESIA) |
AFP/File - Fri Mar 16, 4:12 PM ET A veterinarian inoculates a hen against the bird flu virus in a private hen-coop in a village of Konstantinovo, some 40 kms outside Moscow, in February 2007. A United Nations bird flu conference will take place this month in Italy charged with implementing a global strategy for the vaccination of threatened species.(AFP/File/Dima Korotayev) (RUSSIA) |
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AFP/File - Sat Mar 17, 12:16 PM ET Kuwaiti health workers spray disinfectant after a 2005 outbreak of bird flu at a poultry market in Kuwait City. Kuwait has announced a new case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu in a chicken, raising the number to 54 since the outbreak began on February 25.(AFP/File/Yasser Al-Zayyat) (KUWAIT) |
Fri, 16 Mar 2007 7:52 PM PDT Pigeon fancier with her birds (Photo courtesy Royal Pigeon Racing Association) Pigeon Racing Ban Lifted in Western Europe, Bird Flu Risk Low (UK) |
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Fri, 16 Mar 2007 3:08 PM PDT Educating poultry farmers helps them recognize warning signs of avian flu to increase protection of food systems. (© AP Images) U.S., U.N. Officials Agree To Coordinate Avian Flu Efforts (USA) |
AFP/File - Sun Mar 18, 1:30 PM ET A caged bird at a poultry market in Lagos, Nigeria. Senior veterinarians have warned that the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus is spreading among poultry farms around Kano -- northern Nigeria's largest city.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei) (NIGERIA) |
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AFP/File - Sun Mar 18, 3:39 PM ET Ice drifts in Shari town, Hokkaido prefecture. The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found in the body of an endangered eagle in southern Japan, the environment ministry said Sunday, according to reports. The bird, called the mountain hawk eagle, is on the Japanese government's list of endangered species and there are believed to be some 1,800 inhabiting mountainous areas from Hokkaido in the north to Kyushu in the south, the report said.(AFP/File/Toshifumi Kitamura) (JAPAN) |
CTV.ca Sun, 18 Mar 2007 3:20 PM PDT Doctors who have treated H5N1 avian flu patients are meeting in a Turkish seaside town to try to find answers to the myriad mysteries that remain about what the brutal virus does to its human victims and how dismal survival rates might be improved. (TURKEY) |
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AFP - Mon Mar 19, 3:07 PM ET Thai monks walk past a flock of pigeons near a park in Bangkok. Thai officials on Monday confirmed the country's fourth outbreak of bird flu this year, with the deadly H5N1 virus detected among chickens in a northeastern province bordering Laos. Livestock officials said the fresh outbreak was discovered two weeks ago in domestic chicken raised on a farm in Mukdahan province, about 640 kilometres (400 miles) northeast of Bangkok.(AFP/Saeed Khan) (THAILAND) |
AFP/File - Mon Mar 19, 9:32 AM ET An Indonesian doctor treats a patient who is under observation for the bird flu virus at a Jakarta hospital in 2005. Bird flu has killed a 21-year-old man in Indonesia, taking the death toll in the nation worst hit by the disease to 66.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo) (INDONESIA) |
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Reuters - Mon Mar 19, 2:18 PM ET An Egyptian boy stands near ducks and chickens in Cairo March 19, 2007. A 2-year-old Egyptian boy has tested positive for bird flu, bringing the number of people who have contracted the disease in the most populous Arab country to 26, the Health Ministry said on Monday. REUTERS/Nasser Nuri (EGYPT) |
AFP/File - Mon Mar 19, 2:54 PM ET Hundreds of chickens for sale at a market Jakarta 14 March 2007. Bird flu in Indonesia, has taken the death toll to 66.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo) (INDONESIA) |
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Reuters - Mon Mar 19, 4:59 PM ET Veterinarians vaccinate chicken against bird flu in the village of Treskoushchyna, west of Minsk, March 15, 2007. Scientists are developing portable kits for diagnosing bird flu in poultry, something they say could mean much faster action to stop the spread of the virus. (Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters) (BELARUS) |
AFP/File - Tue Mar 20, 1:25 PM ET Birds for sale are seen in a cage at a bird market in Hong Kong, 08 March 2007. Hong Kong health authorities are investigating the case of a nine-month-old girl infected with a strain of bird flu after similar past cases, health officials said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Tengku Bahar) (HONG KONG) |
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Reuters - Tue Mar 20, 9:33 AM ET A veterinary inspector sprays disinfectant on a truck carrying chickens at a checkpoint in Bangkok February 1, 2007. Scientists have found that a strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus circulating in Thailand is resistant to the flu drug amantadine, and they called for rigorous study of H5N1 strains to better treat human victims. (Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters) (THAILAND) |
Reuters - Tue Mar 20, 3:35 PM ET A worker separates chicks into 'Grade A' and 'Grade B' categories where the latter is thrown into the funnel at the Wadi Hatcheries in Sadat City in this March 8, 2007 file photo. World Health Organization officials said on Tuesday they are 'scurrying' to reach an agreement that ensures developing countries most at risk from an influenza pandemic will get the vaccines they need. (Tara Todras-Whitehill/Reuters) (INDONESIA) |
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AFP/File - Tue Mar 20, 1:24 PM ET A chicken is seen at a chicken farm in Yangon, 14 March 2007. Myanmar has slaughtered more than 1,000 chickens after discovering another outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in Yangon, a livestock department official said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Khin Maung Win) (MYANMAR) |
AFP/File - Wed Mar 21, 2:38 AM ET A chicken farm in Yangon, 14 March 2007. The UN's agricultural agency praised Myanmar's normally secretive government for being "quick and effective" in its response to outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus. Military-run Myanmar has slaughtered about 38,000 birds in efforts to curb the rapid spread of a deadly strain of bird flu, but fears further outbreaks, according to state-run media.(AFP/File/Khin Maung Win) (MYANMAR) |
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Reuters - Wed Mar 21, 5:56 AM ET A Bosnian pharmacist displays Swiss drug maker Roche's Tamiflu bird flu anti-viral tablets at a pharmacy in the capital Sarajevo February 18, 2006. Japan's Health Ministry said on Wednesday it had ordered the importer of the bird flu drug Tamiflu to warn doctors against giving it to teenagers after two new cases of abnormal behavior were reported. (Danilo Krstanovic/Reuters) (JAPAN) |
AFP/File - Thu Mar 22, 7:42 AM ET South Korean officials said they will issue warnings on the bird flu drug Tamiflu, the second Asian nation to do so after Japan following reports of abnormal behaviour by young users.(AFP/File/Adek Berry) (SOUTH KOREA) |
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AFP/File - Thu Mar 22, 7:43 AM ET Indonesian officials slaughter a duck (goose-ED.) as a part of a mass culling operation against the bird flu virus in January 2007. World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) chief Bernard Vallat has said that culling remains the best strategy to combat bird flu, while the less radical and more effective option of vaccination remains problematic in many countries.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo) (INDONESIA) |
AFP - Thu Mar 22, 1:18 PM ET Pakistani official sprays against bird flu at the Islamabad zoo. Authorities have detected the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in dead crows in Pakistan's capital.(AFP/Farooq Naeem) (PAKISTAN) |
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AFP/File - Thu Mar 22, 2:33 PM ET A Bangladeshi poultry vendor waits for customers at his shop in Dhaka, in 2006. Bangladesh confirmed Thursday its first case of bird flu, prompting mass culling of poultry at a farm outside the capital Dhaka, officials said.(AFP/File/Shafiq Alam) (BANGLEDESH) |
AFP/File - Thu Mar 22, 4:06 PM ET A peacock displays its plumage. Saudi authorities announced Thursday that they had found H5N1 bird flu in captive birds, in the kingdom's first outbreak of the strain of the disease that is dangerous to humans. Laboratory tests found the strain in turkeys, parrots, peacocks and ostriches at a farm.(AFP/File/Arif Ali) (SAUDI ARABIA) |
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AP - Fri Mar 23, 10:14 AM ET Bangladeshi veterinary workers prepare to slaughter chickens at a poultry farm in Sripur village, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, March 23, 2007. Bird flu was detected at a state-run poultry farm near the Bangladeshi capital where workers recently slaughtered about 30,000 chickens, the government said Friday. Laboratory tests in Bangladesh and Thailand confirmed that the farm was infected by the H5N1 virus, the government Press Information Department said in a statement. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman) (BANGLADESH) |
AFP/File - Fri Mar 23, 4:29 PM ET A hen vendor waits for customers on the road-side in Dhaka in 2005. Authorities in Bangladesh said Friday they had slaughtered tens of thousands of chickens at farms on the outskirts of Dhaka where the country's first case of bird flu was confirmed.(AFP/File/Farjana K Godhuly (BANGLADESH) |
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Reuters - Fri Mar 23, 10:14 AM ET Chickens stand in cages at a market in Hong Kong, June 14, 2006. An experimental H5N1 bird flu vaccine for humans will be tested in Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan this year and will involve more than 1,000 people, a coordinator for the project said on Friday. (Bobby Yip/Reuters) (WHO) |
Reuters - Sat Mar 24, 11:56 AM ET A Bangladeshi worker looks at chickens suspected to be infected by bird flu in a ditch in Gazipur near Dhaka March 24, 2007. Workers at a state-run poultry farm near the Bangladesh capital protested on Saturday culling of chickens infected by the H5N1 virus, forcing authorities to call in the army to carry out the slaughter. REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman (BANGLADESH) |
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Saturday March 24 2007 08:50:04 AM BDT - Authorities Friday ordered a series of steps including poultry culling and health examination of people at inflicted poultry farms a day after the government announced the detection of bird flu at suburban Savar, report agencies.(News Today) (BANGLADESH) |
Reuters - Sat Mar 24, 11:47 AM ET Bangladeshi workers collect chickens suspected to be infected by bird flu in Gazipur near Dhaka March 24, 2007. Workers at a state-run poultry farm near the Bangladesh capital protested on Saturday culling of chickens infected by the H5N1 virus, forcing authorities to call in the army to carry out the slaughter. REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman (BANGLADESH) |
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GAZIPUR, Mar. 24 Some 3,000 chickens of a poultry farm here were culled Saturday after the detection of Avian Influenza virus (bird flu) at the Biman poultry farm in Savar, reports UNB.(BANGLADESH) |
AP - Sat Mar 24, 9:32 AM ET A Bangladeshi farm worker cries as she prays while chickens are being slaughtered at a poultry farm in Gajipur village, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, March 24, 2007. Bird flu was detected at a state-run poultry farm near the Bangladeshi capital where workers recently slaughtered about 30,000 chickens, the government said Friday. Laboratory tests in Bangladesh and Thailand confirmed that the farm was infected by the H5N1 virus, the government Press Information Department said in a statement. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman) (BANGLADESH) |
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AFP - Sun Mar 25, 5:12 PM ET Hens stand in a pen at a Bangladeshi farm in the village of Sardaganj in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka. Three new farms reported bird flu outbreaks in Bangladesh Sunday after thousands of poultry were destroyed last week due to confirmed cases of the deadly virus, the government said.(AFP/Farjana K. Godhuly) (BANGLADESH) |
AP - Sun Mar 25, 11:52 AM ET Bahraini Alhur al-Riyahi, 3, plays with pigeons and rabbits Sunday, March 25, 2007, in the Hamad Town, Bahrain, central market. Many Bahrainis are worrying about bird flu making its way to the Gulf island nation after it was detected last week on a poultry farm across the causeway in eastern Saudi Arabia. Bahraini authorities announced a special isolation ward is ready at the main hospital to receive any bird flu cases. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (BAHRAIN) |
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AP - Sun Mar 25, 11:53 AM ET An unidentified vendor offers a chick for sale Sunday, March 25, 2007, in Hamad Town, Bahrain. Chicks are still selling, but many Bahrainis are worrying more about bird flu making its way to the Gulf island nation after a contaminated poultry farm was culled and sterilized across the causeway in eastern Saudi Arabia. Last week, authorities announced a special isolation ward is ready at the country's main hospital to receive any bird flu cases. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (BAHRAIN) |
AP - Sun Mar 25, 11:53 AM ET An unidentified vendor offers a chick for sale Sunday, March 25, 2007, in Hamad Town, Bahrain. Chicks are still selling, but many Bahrainis are worrying more about bird flu making its way to the Gulf island nation after a contaminated poultry farm was culled and sterilized across the causeway in eastern Saudi Arabia. Last week, authorities announced a special isolation ward is ready at the country's main hospital to receive any bird flu cases. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (BAHRAIN) |
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Mon Mar 26, 8:04 AM ET A worker separates chicks into 'Grade A' and 'Grade B' categories where the latter is thrown into the funnel at the Wadi Hatcheries in Sadat City in this March 8, 2007 file photo. JAKARTA, Indonesia - The World Health Organization might guarantee that poor nations get access to bird flu vaccines in the event of a pandemic, the top WHO flu official said Monday, hoping to end a dispute triggered by Indonesia's decision to stop sharing virus samples. (INDONESIA) |
AFP/File - Mon Mar 26, 3:39 AM ET Indonesia's health minister, Siti Fadilah Supari, seen here, called Monday for new rules to govern the development of human vaccines against bird flu to ensure poorer nations can afford them(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) (INDONESIA) |
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AP - Mon Mar 26, 7:03 AM ET Indonesians work in a backyard chicken slaughterhouse in a crowded neighborhood Monday March 26, 2007 in Jakarta, Indonesia. The World Health Organization might guarantee that poor nations get access to stockpiles of bird flu vaccines in the event of a pandemic, the top WHO flu official said Monday, hoping to end a row triggered by Indonesia's decision to stop sharing virus samples.(AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) (INDONESIA) |
Reuters - Mon Mar 26, 7:30 AM ET Chickens are transported on a motorcycle to a local market in Jakarta March 26, 2007. Indonesia, which is hosting a WHO meeting with health officials from 18 nations to discuss the birdflu issue, has said it will only share samples of the H5N1 avian influenza virus if it has guarantees they will not be used commercially. REUTERS/Crack Palinggi (INDONESIA) |
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PhysOrg Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:27 AM PDT Migratory birds, such as these gulls seen here at a resting staging post, are too readily blamed for the spread of H5N1 without any evidence to support such claims. Credit: Steve Dudley www.toadsnatcher.com |
AFP/File - Tue Mar 27, 2:14 AM ET File photo of the World Health Organisation (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Cambodia, Singapore and the World Health Organisation are to conduct a two-day exercise next week to test Asia's ability to stem a bird flu pandemic, the UN agency said here Tuesday.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini) (WHO) |
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AFP/File - Tue Mar 27, 2:14 AM ET Indonesia's health minister refused to share bird flu samples with the World Health Organization, saying Tuesday she wanted a guarantee the virus would not be used to make unaffordable commercial vaccines. (INDONESIA) |
AFP/File - Tue Mar 27, 3:33 AM ET A vendor holds ducks at a market in Denpasar, 22 March 2007. Two people in Indonesia died after testing positive for bird flu, with further tests being conducted to confirm the initial results, the country's health ministry said Tuesday. A 22-year-old female university student died on Saturday and a teenage boy on Sunday, a spokeswoman from the ministry's bird flu information centre said.(AFP/File/Sonny Tumbelaka) (INDONESIA) |
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Mon, 26 Mar 2007 8:14 AM PDT Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia will not send any Avian Influenza (AI) virus sample abroad until a Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) has been signed, Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said here Monday. (INDONESIA) |
Reuters - Tue Mar 27, 11:41 PM ET Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari (L) talks to journalists during news conference beside David Heymann, the World Health Organisation's (WHO) representative for avian influenza, in Jakarta March 27, 2007. The WHO reached a breakthrough agreement with developing nations on a fair mechanism for bird flu vaccine access on Tuesday, Indonesia's health minister said. REUTERS/Beawiharta (INDONESIA) |
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AFP/File - Wed Mar 28, 2:17 AM ET Indonesian doctors examine blood samples from poultry workers working in Bali and Banten. Indonesia has agreed to lift its ban on sharing bird flu samples with the World Health Organisation (WHO) after reaching an agreement in a long-running row over poor countries' access to vaccines.(AFP/File/Inoong ) (INDONESIA) |
AFP/File - Wed Mar 28, 12:43 AM ET A man carries chickens to sell at a chicken run in Jakarta, 14 March 2007. An Indonesian man died Wednesday from bird flu, taking the human toll in the country worst hit by the disease to 69, officials said.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo) (INDONESIA) |
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AFP/File - Wed Mar 28, 11:51 AM ET Indonesia President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, seen here on 14 March 2007, said Wednesday the world should treat rich and poor countries equally in its attempt to avoid a catastrophic human pandemic from bird flu.(AFP/File/Sonny Tumbelaka) (INDONESIA) |
Reuters - Thu Mar 29, 6:57 AM ET Slaughtered chickens are displayed in a local market in Surabaya, east Java province, March 29, 2007. A 14-year-old boy and a 28-year-old woman have died of bird flu in Indonesia, a health ministry official said on Thursday. The deaths brings Indonesia's confirmed human death toll from the H5N1 virus to 71, the highest in the world. REUTERS/Sigit Pamungkas (INDONESIA) |
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A Bangladeshi vendor carries chicken on a rickshaw to a market in Dhaka, March 29, 2007. Bangladesh has called for international help to upgrade bird flu test, an official said on Wednesday, as country battles a large outbreak of the disease in poultry. REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman (BANGLADESH) |
Reuters - Thu Mar 29, 3:33 AM ET A vendor waits for customers at a poultry market in Jinan, east China's Shandong Province March 29, 2007. A Chinese teenager has died from bird flu, state media reported on Thursday, marking the country's third human infection from the virus this year. The 16-year-old boy from Bengbu in the rural eastern province of Anhui died late on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency reported, citing a provincial health official. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA) |
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AFP/File - Thu Mar 29, 12:39 PM ET A Kuwaiti health worker decontaminates a chicken coop in Kabad, south of Kuwait City on 02 March 2007. Kuwait has ordered the culling of about 1.1 million chickens in a bid to fight an outbreak of bird flu, an official was quoted as saying on Thursday.(AFP/File/Yasser Al-Zayyat) (KUWAIT) |
Aljazeera Thu, 29 Mar 2007 3:38 AM PDT Most bird flu cases can be traced to contact with dead or infected poultry [EPA] |
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Thu, 29 Mar 2007 7:54 AM PDT In the wake of outbreak of avian influenza in Bangladesh and Myanmar, the government has put the customs department on alert and directed them not to clear any consignment of livestock without quarantine clearance. (INDIA) |
AP - Thu Mar 29, 5:16 AM ET A Bangladeshi vendor inspects his chicks in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, March 29, 2007. Bangladesh is battling a large outbreak of bird flu disease in poultry after laboratory tests in Bangladesh and Thailand confirmed that a poultry farm at Savar, run by the state-owned Biman Bangladesh Airlines, was infected by the H5N1 virus last week. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman) (BANGLADESH) |
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AP - Thu Mar 29, 5:17 AM ET A Bangladeshi vendor feeds his chicks in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, March 29, 2007. Bangladesh is battling a large outbreak of bird flu disease in poultry after laboratory tests in Bangladesh and Thailand confirmed that a poultry farm at Savar, run by the state-owned Biman Bangladesh Airlines, was infected by the H5N1 virus last week. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman) (BANGLADESH) |
AP - Thu Mar 29, 5:17 AM ET A Bangladeshi vendor feeds his chicks in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, March 29, 2007. Bangladesh is battling a large outbreak of bird flu disease in poultry after laboratory tests in Bangladesh and Thailand confirmed that a poultry farm at Savar, run by the state-owned Biman Bangladesh Airlines, was infected by the H5N1 virus last week. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman) (BANGLADESH) |
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Fri Mar 30, 10:03 AM ET Bangladeshi chicken vendor waits for customers at Kowran bazaar in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, March. 28, 2007. DHAKA (Reuters) - Bird flu has spread to five more farms in central and northern districts, Bangladesh said on Friday. (BANGLADESH) |
AFP/File - Fri Mar 30, 4:19 PM ET Hundreds of chickens for sale are placed together in a chicken run in Jakarta 14 March 2007. An Indonesian doctor who fell ill after treating patients suffering from the deadly bird flu virus was improving, a fellow doctor said.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo) (INDONESIA) |
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AFP/File - Sat Mar 31, 5:08 PM ET An Indonesian worker prepares to burn dead chickens as authorities slaughtered around 2,700 of them infected by the H5N1 virus, in Jembrana, 29 March 2007. Indonesian scientists said they remained baffled by the "random" behaviour of the bird flu virus afflicting the country, after a top-level meeting here.(AFP/File/Sonny Tumbelaka) (INDONESIA) |
AFP/File - Sat Mar 31, 3:22 PM ET Kuwait Health Ministry workers collect dead pigeons in a farm in February 2007. Officials said bird flu has devastated egg production in Kuwait as authorities culled a majority of the emirate's layer chickens amid a rise in the number of H5N1 virus cases.(AFP/File/Yasser Al Zayyat) (KUWAIT) |
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