Avian Influenza Photo Gallery

March 2006

WED March 1st 2006

A seagull flies over a beach. The US government has purchased millions of doses of anti-viral drugs to handle a possible bird flu pandemic, Health Secretary Mike Leavitt announced.(AFP/File/Valery Hache)

Fri Mar 3, 11:34 AM ET

A French veterinarian holds the beak of a red flamingo as his colleague vaccinates it against bird flu with the H5N2 vaccine in the zoo of Mulhouse, France March 3, 2006. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler

Sun Mar 5, 7:56 AM ET

November 2005 shows a volunteer with the Federal Ornithological Station examining a duck in Sempach, Switzerland. Swiss authorities have said that they had discovered four new cases of the broad H5 family of the avian influenza virus in wild ducks.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)

Mon March 6, 7:54 AM EST

Police officers guard a place where a dead pigeon lays on the banks of the Vistula river in Torun, central Poland, Sunday, March 5, 2006. The Polish Agriculture Ministry confirmed Sunday the first two cases of H5 bird flu in Poland were detected in swans found dead in the center of Torun. Further tests are being conducted on wild swans to determine if it is the deadly H5N1 strain. ( AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Monday, March 6, 11:39 AM EST

A French vet vaccinates a Padouan chicken against the bird flu with the H5N2 vaccine Monday, March 6, 2006 in the zoo at Strasbourg in eastern France. A lethal strain of bird flu has spread to a region on France's Mediterranean coast, with confirmation Sunday that a swan there died of the H5N1 strain of the virus. Previously, all of France's bird flu cases had been confined to the southeast Ain region. On Sunday, the Agriculture Ministry announced that a wild swan found dead last week in Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts, in the Bouches-du-Rhone Camargues region, had the H5N1 strain, according to lab tests. (AP Photo / Christian Lutz

Monday, March 6,6:53 PM EST

A man carries cages with cats in an animal shelter in the Austrian town of Graz

Monday March 6 12:13 PM EST

A cat looks through the fence on Friday, Feb. 17, 2006 in the Noah's Ark animal shelter in Graz in the state of Styria in Austria where several birds died last month of H5N1. Three cats from an animal shelter that took in H5N1-infected birds have tested positive for bird flu, Austrian state authorities said Monday, confirming the first case here of the disease spreading to an animal other than birds. The cats were among 40 that had been living at the Noah's Ark animal shelter near Graz, which took in several birds that were infected with the disease last month, Hans Seitinger, the top agriculture official for the Austrian state of Styria said. (AP Photo/Markus Leodolter)

Tues March 7, 10:13 AM EST

Vendors wait near a cage filled with ducks being weighed at a poultry market in Hefei, northwestern China's Anhui province, Monday, March 6, 2006. Bird flu is not being passed between humans in China, the health minister was quoted as saying Monday, one day after the government confirmed that a 32-year-old man in the country's south died of the deadly H5N1 strain .(AP Photo/Color China Photo)

Posted: 07 March 2006 1922 hrs

SINGAPORE : The birds of the Jurong Birdpark have been vaccinated against avian flu.

Wed Mar 8, 4:31 PM ET

Four swans fly over the riverbank of the Vistula River in Torun, Poland March 8, 2006. REUTERS/Peter Andrews

Thursday, March 9 9:59 AM EST

A stone marten is seen in the Zoological Garden in Dresden, Germany

March 9, 2006

Delegation from Kosovo learns how state prevented disease's spread

By Luladey B. Tadesse The News Journal

Delmar farmer Sam Slabaugh listens to a question by interpreter Vidian Tolka as farmer Abduraman Konjufca and veterinarian Florik Haxhikdria listen during a tour of Slabaugh's poultry farm. Times Photo by Joey Gardner

Moscow Zoo worker holds a goose as a medic gives an injection during a mass vaccination campaign against bird flu in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 21, 2006. More than 1.2 million wild and domestic birds have been culled or died since an outbreak of bird flu in southern Russia last month. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Moscow Zoo workers catch geese to give them an injection during a mass vaccination campaign against bird flu in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 21, 2006. More than 1.2 million wild and domestic birds have been culled or died since an outbreak of bird flu in southern Russia last month. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

A veterinary performs a vaccination on a goose against the H5N2 virus, which is a milder form of the deadly H5N1 strain, on 09 March at Lunaret zoo in Montpellier. Why is Europe so neurotic about bird flu? Over the past 20 years, confidence in food safety and government reassurance has been badly undermined by a series of scares.(AFP)

A Russian veterinary worker vaccinates a swan against bird flu at a Moscow Zoo, March 21, 2006. Russia plans to tighten border controls and is continuing the mass vaccination of domestic fowl as it seeks to prevent the spread of deadly bird flu, senior veterinary officials said on Monday. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk

Two volunteers from the Ile Grande orthonological center, western France, examine a grey heron. France lifted a ban on the sale of poultry from an eastern region affected by bird flu three weeks ago, under certain conditions.(AFP/File/Fred Tanneau)

An Egyptian veterinarian sprays disinfectant in the ostrich enclosure at Giza zoo. Egypt said that a 30-year-old woman has died of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu, making her the country's first human victim as the virus spread to birds in neighboring Israel.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki)

A veterinary surgeon vaccinates a Guinea Fowl against bird flu 17 March in Copenhagen zoo. Bird flu has come to Europe and, if the newspapers are any guide, many Europeans are running around like, well, headless chickens(AFP/Scanpix/File/Keld Navntoft)

Moscow Zoo employees catch birds for vaccination against bird flu in central Moscow, March 21, 2006. Russia plans to tighten border controls and is continuing the mass vaccination of domestic fowl as it seeks to prevent the spread of deadly bird flu, senior veterinary officials said on Monday. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk

A Romanian expert operates testing samples at the laboratory of the Romanian Institute for Diagnosis and Health of the Animals in Bucharest on 06 March. Why is Europe so neurotic about bird flu? Over the past 20 years, confidence in food safety and government reassurance has been badly undermined by a series of scares.(AFP/File/Daniel Mihailescu)

A researcher works with vaccine samples at the Cantacuzino Institute in Bucharest March 21, 2006. Romania may produce a Hungarian vaccine aimed at protecting people against the lethal H5N1 strain of the bird flu, officials said on Monday. A number of companies around the world are working on vaccines to counter the H5N1 virus, which has killed around 100 people since late 2003. Neither Romania nor Hungary have recorded human cases so far. REUTERS/Mihai Barbu

A saltwater crocodile is given a chicken at a reptile park in October 2000. The outbreak of bird flu in Israel has led the owners of a wildlife farm to remove chicken from the menu of some of their hungriest charges -- a 200-strong congregation of crocodiles.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)	A swan and ducks swim in the Lake Constance, also known as Bodensee, near the Swiss-German border in Taegerwilen, Switzerland, March 21, 2006. A Swiss Civil Protection did a precautionary search for dead birds on the banks after some cases of bird flu were found in the region of Lake Constance earlier this month. REUTERS/Ruben Sprich
Two wild swans found in central Stockholm last week died of the highly pathogenic strain of H5 bird flu.(AFP/File/Gerard Julien)	Geese stand near a pond in New York's Central Park. The US government has decided to sharply increase testing of wild birds for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in the hope of quickly detecting its arrival and preventing an epizootic.(AFP/Getty Images/File)
People walk pass chicken for sale an the street in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday March 19, 2006.The five weeks since a deadly bird flu virus was first detected in Nigeria provide a troubling illustration of what can happen when H5N1 hits an undeveloped country with a weak and often corrupt political system and two few resources devoted to health. Officials have been overwhelmed, responding too late and with too little as the disease spread quickly across Africa's most populous country.(AP Photo/George Osodi)	Tofiq Gasymov, the father of a 16-year-old girl who died in a suspected case of bird flu, displays a picture of his daughter. The dangerous strain of H5N1 bird flu has killed five people in Azerbaijan, the World Health Organisation said, while further tests were underway to ensure that the virus has not mutated into a more infectious form for humans.(AFP/File/Rene Effendi)
A Georgian veterinary department worker disinfects a car arriving from neighboring Azerbaijan at the Georgian-Azeri state border, some 50 kms from Tbilisi. The dangerous strain of H5N1 bird flu has killed five people in Azerbaijan, the World Health Organisation said, while further tests we re underway to ensure that the virus has not mutated into a more infectious form for humans.(AFP/File/Vano Shlamov)	An Egyptian health department worker, wearing a protective suit, disinfects a house in the village of the third Egyptian suspected to have been infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. Egypt said four people have been infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, including one who has already died.(AFP)
A Cambodian woman sits by her bird traps in front of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, March 22, 2006. She sells wild birds to customers, who then release them on Buddhist holy day in hope for good luck. Cambodia has recently been urged to expand its surveillance of wild and migratory birds to help halt the spread of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus. The virus has spread to humans, killing at least 103 people since 2003, mostly in Asia, including four people in Cambodia. (AP photo/Heng Sinith)	A farmer washes her vegetables with her chickens in the village of Zhongjulou in China's eastern Anhui province. China has agreed to share up to 20 virus samples from poultry killed by bird flu, in an effort to help scientists trying to develop a vaccine, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.(AFP/Peter Parks)
A Pakistani police officer stands guard at a private quarantined poultry farm in Charssada, near provincial capital of Peshawar, Pakistan, on Feb. 28, 2006. Pakistan's beleaguered poultry industry braced for a further drop in sales after the government announced on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 the country's first two cases of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zubair)	Police protect a zone in Torun, northern Poland, on the bank of the Vistula River where a dead swan was found. Why is Europe so neurotic about bird flu? Over the past 20 years, confidence in food safety and government reassurance has been badly undermined by a series of scares.(AFP/File/Kuba Wolniak)
An Egyptian Health worker disinfects a farm at the town of Qalyoub in the Qalyoubiya governorate north of Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, March 18, 2006. Initial tests have shown that a woman who died this week had bird flu, making her likely the first human death from the disease in Egypt, officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Nasser Nouri)	Clad in protective gear, French Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries Dominique Bussereau, center, visited a chicken slaughter-house in Saint-Brandan, on March 17, 2006. A month earlier, France confirmed its first case of bird flu in farmed turkeys, marking the first appearance of the virus in poultry within the European Union.
Palestinian veterinary experts put boxes of chicks into a pit at a garbage dump in the West Bank village of Nuba, near Hebron March 20, 2006. Israel poisoned hundreds of thousands of turkeys and chickens as it sought on Monday to contain an outbreak of the dangerous H5N1 strain of bird flu which has been spreading at an alarming rate. REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun	A tractor carries dead turkeys to be buried in the southern Israeli Kibbutz of Holit, near the Egyptian border Monday, March 20, 2006. Egypt reported its second human case of avian flu Sunday while Israel on Monday confirmed its first outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. In a statement on its Web site, the Agriculture Ministry said the flu had been found in birds at two communal farms in southern Israel and at a farming community in central Israel. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
A dead chicken lays in a Nile tributary in the village of Noqbas, Qalyoubiya governorate, north of Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, March 19, 2006. Egypt reported its second human case of avian flu Sunday while Israel continued its precautionary culling of birds. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)	A worker wears protective gear as he disposes of dead turkeys into a large pit at a quarantined farm in the southern Israeli community of Sde Moshe, Sunday March 19, 2006. Israeli veterinary officials on Sunday proceeded with the slaughter of hundreds of thousands turkeys and chickens as new tests came close to confirming Israel's first outbreak of the deadly bird flu. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Members of the Palestinian Authority veterinary medical team dispose chickens from Israel to be buried alive as a precaution for bird flu in a pit at the garbage dump south of the West Bank town of Hebron, Saturday, March 18, 2006. Israel's veterinary services will complete the culling Saturday of two flocks of turkeys suspected of having the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, an Agriculture Ministry official said. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)	Egyptian Health workers collect live Ducks, confiscated from farms, for culling at the town of Qalyoub in the Qalyoubiya governorate north of Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, March 18, 2006. Initial tests have shown that a woman who died this week had bird flu, making her likely the first human death from the disease in Egypt, officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Nasser Nouri)
Mar. 29, 2006 Media Release Health officials began monitoring thousands of people on Wednesday for flu-like symptoms after a third outbreak of avian influenza in poultry in Maharashtra in two months.	Thu Mar 30, 2:16 PM ET Seagulls fly over the Charles Bridge in Prague. Czech health officials confirmed that a wild swan found dead in the southern part of the country several days ago was infected with the H5 strain of bird flu.(AFP/File/Michal Cizek)

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Moscow Zoo worker holds a goose as a medic gives an injection during a mass vaccination campaign against bird flu in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 21, 2006. More than 1.2 million wild and domestic birds have been culled or died since an outbreak of bird flu in southern Russia last month. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)	Moscow Zoo workers catch geese to give them an injection during a mass vaccination campaign against bird flu in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 21, 2006. More than 1.2 million wild and domestic birds have been culled or died since an outbreak of bird flu in southern Russia last month. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
A veterinary performs a vaccination on a goose against the H5N2 virus, which is a milder form of the deadly H5N1 strain, on 09 March at Lunaret zoo in Montpellier. Why is Europe so neurotic about bird flu? Over the past 20 years, confidence in food safety and government reassurance has been badly undermined by a series of scares.(AFP)	A Russian veterinary worker vaccinates a swan against bird flu at a Moscow Zoo, March 21, 2006. Russia plans to tighten border controls and is continuing the mass vaccination of domestic fowl as it seeks to prevent the spread of deadly bird flu, senior veterinary officials said on Monday. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk
Two volunteers from the Ile Grande orthonological center, western France, examine a grey heron. France lifted a ban on the sale of poultry from an eastern region affected by bird flu three weeks ago, under certain conditions.(AFP/File/Fred Tanneau)	An Egyptian veterinarian sprays disinfectant in the ostrich enclosure at Giza zoo. Egypt said that a 30-year-old woman has died of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu, making her the country's first human victim as the virus spread to birds in neighboring Israel.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki)
A veterinary surgeon vaccinates a Guinea Fowl against bird flu 17 March in Copenhagen zoo. Bird flu has come to Europe and, if the newspapers are any guide, many Europeans are running around like, well, headless chickens(AFP/Scanpix/File/Keld Navntoft)	Moscow Zoo employees catch birds for vaccination against bird flu in central Moscow, March 21, 2006. Russia plans to tighten border controls and is continuing the mass vaccination of domestic fowl as it seeks to prevent the spread of deadly bird flu, senior veterinary officials said on Monday. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk
A Romanian expert operates testing samples at the laboratory of the Romanian Institute for Diagnosis and Health of the Animals in Bucharest on 06 March. Why is Europe so neurotic about bird flu? Over the past 20 years, confidence in food safety and government reassurance has been badly undermined by a series of scares.(AFP/File/Daniel Mihailescu)	A researcher works with vaccine samples at the Cantacuzino Institute in Bucharest March 21, 2006. Romania may produce a Hungarian vaccine aimed at protecting people against the lethal H5N1 strain of the bird flu, officials said on Monday. A number of companies around the world are working on vaccines to counter the H5N1 virus, which has killed around 100 people since late 2003. Neither Romania nor Hungary have recorded human cases so far. REUTERS/Mihai Barbu