 Reuters - Mon May 1, 11:29 AM ET Commercially grown chickens huddle in their chicken house near Harrington, Delaware, on February 8, 2004. Authorities have discovered a mild form of avian influenza at a live bird market in New Jersey, but it is not the deadly H5N1 strain governments around the world are trying to contain, the state's agriculture department said. (Tim Shaffer/Reuters) |
 AP - Tue May 2, 3:10 AM ET Chickens sit in a cage at a market in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, May 2, 2006. The World Health Organization said Tuesday it believes a bird flu pandemic can still be prevented if authorities are ready to implement rapid containment measures from the large-scale distribution of anti-viral drugs to the closure of schools. (AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyah) |
Reuters - Mon May 1, 4:33 AM ET Slaughtered chickens are put on sale at a poultry market in Xiangfan, central China's Hubei province May 1, 2006. China, criticised for its initial cover-up of SARS three years ago, has defended its record on reporting human cases of bird flu as prompt and transparent, state media said on Saturday. CHINA OUT REUTERS/Stringer |
 AFP/ANP/File - Mon May 1, 7:26 AM ET Chickens at a Dutch poultry farm in Waddinxveen. The Netherlands has lifted most of the measures put in place to protect Dutch poultry from getting infected with bird flu, saying that chances of infection were slim.(AFP/ANP/File/Koen Suyk) |
 AFP/File - Mon May 1, 3:07 PM ET In this picture taken in 2005, a child chases a goose in rural Ganlanba in China's southwest Yunnan province. China announced the discovery of a bird flu outbreak amongst wild migratory geese in the nation's northwestern Qinghai province, the agriculture ministry said.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown |
 Reuters - Wed May 3, 11:42 PM ET White House Homeland Security adviser Frances Townsend briefs the press on the 'National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Implementation Plan' report in the White House briefing room, May 3, 2006. REUTERS/Larry Downing |
 Reuters - Tue May 2, 4:43 AM ET An official from Japanese embassy in Jakarta displays boxes of Tamiflu that are to be presented to the Indonesian government in Jakarta May 2, 2006. The boxes of Tamiflu, which is among a very small number of drugs that can help limit the severity of the H5N1 avian flu virus in humans, will be dispatched anywhere in Southeast Asia at the onset of a pandemic, officials said. REUTERS/Crack Palinggi |
 AP - Tue May 2, 3:12 AM ET Dr. Shigeru Omi, World Health Organization's Regional Director for Western Pacific Region, gestures as he speaks during a press conference after a ceremony marking the Japan-ASEAN Initiative to Combat Pandemic Influenza, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, May 2, 2006. Omi said he believes a bird flu pandemic can still be prevented if authorities are ready to implement rapid containment measures _ from the large-scale distribution of anti-viral drugs to the closure of schools. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) |
 AP - Wed May 3, 2:02 PM ET Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Frances Townsend briefs the media on their bird-flu response plan, Wednesday, May 3, 2006, in Washington. The plan catalogs steps that the government, businesses and citizens should take if a deadly strain reaches U.S. shores. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds) |
AFP - Wed May 3, 7:28 PM ET Assistant to the US President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Fran Townsend holds up a graph showing the "Stages of the Federal Government Response" during a briefing on the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza at the White House in Washington, DC. The White House released an action plan to counter any avian flu pandemic, amid fears that an outbreak could cause a massive loss of life and widespread economic damage in the United States.(AFP/Jim Watson) |
 Reuters - Wed May 3, 1:36 PM ET U.S. President George W. Bush makes remarks on taxes and spending in Washington May 3, 2006. The Bush administration released a bird-flu response plan Wednesday that catalogs steps that the government, businesses and citizens should take if a deadly strain reaches U.S. shores. REUTERS/Jason Reed |
 AFP/FAO/File - Thu May 4, 2:08 PM ET A lab technicain tags an egg for bird flu tests in Bangkok. The United States stepped up its guard against a bird flu pandemic by awarding one billion dollars worth of contracts to five drug companies to develop an influenza vaccine.(AFP/FAO/File/Saeed Khan) |
 AFP/File - Wed May 3, 7:28 PM ET An Indonesian livestock vendor waits for customers with his chickens for sale at a market in Jakarta. The White House released an action plan to counter any avian flu pandemic, amid fears that an outbreak could cause a massive loss of life and widespread economic damage in the United States.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad |
 Reuters - Wed May 3, 3:15 PM ET Chickens on a farm near Poolesville, Maryland, October 19, 2005. Americans should prepare for travel restrictions and school closures if an influenza pandemic hits, but such measures can only temporarily slow the inevitable spread of disease, the government's new flu plan says. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts |
 AFP/File - Thu May 4, 2:55 PM ET A man sells his rooster at a market in Abidjan. The government of the Ivory Coast announced the imminent slaughter of all poultry sold in the economic capital's markets after discovering three cases of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu.(AFP/File/Issouf Sanogo) |
 Reuters - Wed May 3, 1:24 PM ET Chickens walk in their enclosure near Poolesville, Maryland, October 19, 2005. - A bird flu 'implementation plan' that lays out specific tasks for each federal government agency will be released on Wednesday, the White House said. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) |
 AFP/File - Thu May 4, 2:08 PM ET Bird flu-infected chicken Indonesia. The United States stepped up its guard against a bird flu pandemic by awarding one billion dollars worth of contracts to five drug companies to develop an influenza vaccine.(AFP/File/Ade Danhur) |
 AFP/Getty Images/File - Thu May 4, 2:08 PM ET Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Mike Leavitt, pictured here in April 2006, announced that the United States stepped up its guard against a bird flu pandemic by awarding contracts worth just over one billion dollars to five drug companies to develop an influenza vaccine.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Win Mcnamee) |
 Harry Weyandt stands in the storage area of his Nitro Pak store where products are pulled from the shelves to fill emergency kits Thursday, April 20, 2006 in Heber City, Utah. Weyandt's business has been booming with recent concerns about the possibility of an Avian Flu pandemic. (AP Photo/Steve C. Wilson) |
 AP - Thu May 4, 12:14 PM ET Emergency preparedness products are displayed on the way to being packaged for emergency kits at the Nitro Pak store Thursday, April 20, 2006 in Heber City, Utah. Weyandt's business has been booming with recent concerns about the possibility of an Avian Flu pandemic. (AP Photo/Steve C. Wilson) |
 AFP - Sat May 6, 7:40 AM ET A Vietnamese poultry farmer. WHO's Asia chief has praised Vietnam and Thailand for their grassroots fight against bird flu but said there was "room for improvement" in Indonesia and China.(AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam) |
 AFP/DDP/File - Thu May 4, 12:10 PM ET Slaughtered chicken are thrown in a container at a poultry farm in Wermsdorf, eastern Germany, in April 2006. Agriculture Minister Horst Seehofer said Germany will continue to enforce a lock-up of domestic fowl in most of the country to combat bird flu, despite protests by farmers.(AFP/DDP/File/Sebastian Willnow |
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 Reuters - Thu May 4, 8:17 AM ET A boy stands near a hen house in the Marcory Anoumabo suburbs of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, April 27, 2006. Animal health authorities in Ivory Coast said on Thursday tests in an Italian laboratory had confirmed the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu in the West African country's main city Abidjan. (Luc Gnago/Reuters) |
 AFP - Thu May 4, 9:49 AM ET Delegates from various United Nations Agencies attend an APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) meeting on bird flu in Vietnamese central city of Danang. Asia-Pacific countries met in Vietnam to find ways to either prevent or cope with a bird flu pandemic that experts say could kill millions of people.(AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam) |
 Reuters - Thu May 4, 9:34 AM ET Chickens rest in their enclosure on a farm near Poolesville, Maryland, October 19, 2005. Shares of U.S. chicken companies have gained in recent weeks despite a mountain of meat here and bird flu overseas as investors may be betting the worst of the industry's troubles are behind it, analysts said. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) |
 AFP - Thu May 4, 9:49 AM ET US Ambassador John E. Lange, US State Department's Special Representative on Avian and Influenza Pandemic, addresses an APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) meeting on bird flu, in Vietnamese central city of Danang. Asia-Pacific countries met in Vietnam to find ways to either prevent or cope with a bird flu pandemic that experts say could kill millions of people.(AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam) |
 AP - Thu May 4, 7:31 AM ET Swans float and land in the water on the river Alster in Hamburg, northern Germany, Thursday, May 4, 2006. It is a tradition in Hamburg since 1674 to accomodate the Alster swans every winter until the next spring. This year the swans were released a little later than usual to avoid the higher risk of an infection with the bird flu virus during the bird migration time. (AP Photo/Kai-Uwe Knoth) |
 AFP/File - Thu May 4, 6:38 AM ET A three-wheeler auto rickshaw driver transports a passenger and his chickens along a busy street in Jakarta, in April 2006. Indonesia is planning a three-year pilot project to fight bird flu in a municipality outside Jakarta, hoping to translate the lessons to the country as a whole.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad) |
 Reuters - Sat May 6, 10:19 PM ET A flock of pelicans swims in Malaysia's National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur April 26, 2006. Asian countries hardest hit by avian flu would keep ringing alarm bells in a push for transparency and international cooperation to prevent a possible global pandemic, health officials said on Friday. (Zainal Abd Halim/Reuters) |
 Reuters - Thu May 4, 12:04 AM ET Special Representative on Avian and Pandemic Influenza - Avian Influenza Action Group - US Department of State, Ambassador John E. Lange (L), talks with Acting Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs - US Department of Agriculture Dr. Chuck Lambert during a preparatory meeting for the APEC Ministerial Meeting on Avian and Influenza Pandemics in Da Nang, Vietnam May 4, 2006. Vietnam hosts the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting from May 4-6, 2006. REUTERS/Kham |
 AFP - Thu May 4, 8:46 PM ET Pidgeon in Abidjan : A pigeon sits in front of its cage in Abidjan, a day after the Ivorian government confirmed several outbreaks of the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu in both wild birds and poultry in the economic capital. (AFP/Kambou Sia) |
 AFP/File - Fri May 5, 11:25 AM ET A chicken is prepared to be immunized by a veterinary worker at a private farm in a village outside Vladikavkaz, in April 2006. Bird flu continues to be present in seven Russian districts out of a total 80 locations where outbreaks have been recorded this year.(AFP/File) |
 AP - Fri May 5, 6:45 PM ET John Steen, a broiler tech advisor at Tyson Foods Inc., dons protective gear as he sprays a disinfectant on the tires of a vehicle before it enters a Tyson Foods chicken farm near Springdale, Ark., Friday, May 5, 2006. U.S. poultry growers are concerned that a new disaster movie about bird flu will scare off business. Tyson spokesman Gary Mickelson said measures, like disinfecting tires and requiring people to don protective equipment before going near birds, will help keep the virus out of captive bird populations. (AP Photo/April L. Brown) |
 AP - Fri May 5, 6:37 PM ET John Steen, a broiler tech advisor at Tyson Foods Inc., dons protectove gear as he checks the water line inside a chicken house outside of Springdale, Ark., Friday, May 5, 2006. U.S. poultry growers are concerned that a a new disaster movie about bird flu will scare off business. Tyson spokesman Gary Mickelson said measures, like requiring people to don protective equipment before going near birds, will help keep the virus out of captive bird populations. (AP Photo/April L. Brown) |
 AFP/File - Fri May 5, 1:09 PM ET A flock of geese roam freely by a lake at a park in the suburbs of Beijing in October 2005. China reported a bird flu outbreak among wild migratory geese in the northwest province of Qinghai, the second such case in the area in less than a week.(AFP/File) |
AFP - Fri May 5, 10:03 AM ET Vietnamese Health Minister Tran Thi Trung Chien talks to the media on the sideline of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ministerial meeting on bird flu in Da Nang. Asia-Pacific ministers from rich and poor countries meeting in Vietnam pledged to work together to prevent or mitigate the impact of the feared first human flu pandemic of the 21st century.(AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam) |
 Reuters - Thu May 4, 1:41 AM ET U.S. Ambassador John E. Lange, Special Representative on Avian and Pandemic Influenza - Avian Influenza Action Group, speaks to the media during a break at the Preparation Meeting for the APEC Ministerial Meeting on Avian and Influenza Pandemics in Vietnam's Central Da Nang city May 4, 2006. Vietnam hosts the Meeting for the Apec Ministerial Meeting on Avian and Influenza Pandemics from May 4-6, 2006. REUTERS/Kham |
 Reuters - Sat May 6, 10:28 PM ET Chickens are displayed for sale at a wholesale poultry market in Vietnam's northern Ha Tay province, 25 km (16 miles) south of Hanoi, January 9, 2006. Chicken breeders are just starting to break even more than two years into the avian flu epidemic that shattered the livelihood of some Vietnamese poultry farmers. REUTERS/Kham |
 AP - Sat May 6, 2:15 AM ET U.S. State Department's top bird flu official John Lange, left, and an unidentified U.S. official check chickens at a farm near Danang, Vietnam, on Saturday, May 6, 2006. Agriculture and Health ministers from the Asia Pacific region met Friday in the central Vietnam's city to endorse an action plan to prevent the pandemic. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh) |
 U.S. State Department's top official on bird flu John Lange adjusts a goggle during a visit to a chicken farm near Danang, Vietnam on Saturday May 6, 2006. Agriculture and Health Ministers from Asia Pacific endorsed an action plan to prevent and also prepare for a possible pandemic during their meeting in Vietnam's central city on Friday. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh) |
 Reuters - Mon May 8, 12:03 AM ET Thai Foreign Minister Kantathi Suphamongkhon makes opening statements during a regional senior officials meeting on bird flu, in Bangkok May 8, 2006. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
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AFP/File - Sun May 7, 6:25 PM ET A man sells his rooster at a market in Abidjan. Ivory Coast began the slaughter of all poultry sold in the economic capital's markets after discovering three cases of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, national television reported.(AFP/File/Issouf |
 AFP/File - Mon May 8, 9:10 AM ET A rickshaw driver transports chickens along a busy street in Jakarta. Indonesia's health ministry has confirmed the 25th bird flu death as a doctor warned that urgent action was needed to stem the spread of the virus.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad) |
 Reuters - Mon May 8, 12:08 AM ET Thai Foreign Minister Kantathi Suphamongkhon puts his hands together in a traditional Thai greeting after arriving for a regional senior officials meeting on bird flu in Bangkok May 8, 2006. REUTERS/Adrees Latif |
 AP - Mon May 8, 4:42 AM ET Swans swim on a lake at a zoo Monday, May 8, 2006 in Shanghai, China. The Chinese government last week reported an outbreak of bird flu in wild birds in remote western China in a further sign of the difficulties in controlling the virus' spread. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) |
 AP - Mon May 8, 4:41 AM ET Herons fight for food at a zoo Monday, May 8, 2006 in Shanghai, China. The Chinese government last week reported an outbreak of bird flu in wild birds in remote western China in a further sign of the difficulties in controlling the virus' spread. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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 Reuters - Mon May 8, 9:07 AM ET A pigeon sits in the shade at the obervation deck atop the Empire State Building in New York City August 13, 2002. Worrying how to cope if bird flu becomes a pandemic, U.S. companies are making contingency plans from telecommuting to letting workers sleep on the job. (Mike Segar/Reuters) |
 AFP/File - Mon May 8, 9:10 AM ET Photo dated November 2005 shows an Indonesian nurse treating a bird flu patient in Bandung. Indonesia's health ministry has confirmed the 25th bird flu death as a doctor warned that urgent action was needed to stem the spread of the virus.(AFP/File/Banyu Sakti) |
 Reuters - Mon May 8, 10:54 PM ET A scene from 'Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America,' which follows an outbreak of bird flu from its origins in a Hong Kong market through its mutation into a virus transmittable between humans. (ABC/Handout/Reuters) |
 AFP/File - Mon May 8, 9:15 AM ET Veterinarians examine chickens at a laboratory in Mandalay. International bird flu experts will spend two months in Myanmar to increase awareness of and combat the spread of the deadly virus.(AFP/File) |
 AFP/File - Mon May 8, 9:10 AM ET Anti-influenza medication and personal preventive equipment on display in Jakarta. Indonesia's health ministry has confirmed the 25th bird flu death as a doctor warned that urgent action was needed to stem the spread of the virus.(AFP/File/Adek Berry) |
 Reuters - Wed May 10, 5:25 AM ET Two fighting cocks are seen in Ayutthaya province, Thailand, December 9, 2005. Scientists in Thailand have detected live H5N1 bird flu virus in the blood of a boy who died in December, a discovery that might lead to a safer way to diagnose the disease in humans. (Sukree Sukplang/Reuters) |
 Reuters - Tue May 9, 1:07 AM ET Visiting Philippine Defence Secretary Avelino Cruz talks to Reuters in Kuala Lumpur May 9, 2006. The Philippines will launch a more modern security pact with the United States this month, which covers militants, bird flu, piracy, natural disasters and other threats, Cruz said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad |
 AFP/File - Tue May 9, 9:45 AM ET Photo dated October 2005 shows an Indonesian doctor treating a bird flu victim at a hospital in Jakarta. Australia will spend an extra 44.2 million dollars (34 million US) to prevent deadly bird flu from reaching its shores.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)
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 AP - Tue May 9, 3:18 PM ET Beth Travis, a research microbiologist with Tyson Foods Inc., tests poultry samples at a lab near the Tyson headquarters in Springdale, Ark., Tuesday, May 9, 2006. Tyson Foods Inc., the world's largest meat producer, said Tuesday its tracking surveys have found no drop in U.S. consumer confidence in poultry despite the spread in other parts of the world of a deadly strain of bird flu. (AP Photo/April L. Brown) |
 AFP/File - Wed May 10, 7:05 PM ET A swan swims through a lake. A prototype French vaccine against H5N1 bird flu has been found to be safe and effective in initial tests on several hundred volunteers, according to a study published online by the British journal The Lancet.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis) |
 Reuters - Wed May 10, 3:31 AM ET Chickens run through an alley in a farm in Shanghai's suburb, China in this October 22, 2005 file photo. China has stepped up monitoring for bird flu in the remote northwestern province of Qinghai, state media said on May 10, 2006, as the WHO said it remained concerned and that now was not the time to be complacent. (Aly Song/Reuters) |
 Reuters - Fri May 12, 10:07 AM ET A bush meat seller holds a monkey at the bush meat market of Yopougon in Abidjan May 12 2006. Last week, veterinary authorities confirmed Ivory Coast had the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, which has killed more than 100 people around the world since 2003. Antelope, snails and agouti -- rabbit-sized rodents also called bush rats or grasscutters -- have long been enjoyed as delicacies in Ivory Coast and nearby countries. But bush meat traders say demand has soared since the government started |
 Reuters - Wed May 10, 4:49 AM ET A Hungarian butcher holds up chickens at a market in Budapest May 10, 2006. Since the first reported case of bird flu in Hungary earlier this year, poultry consumption has fallen by 25 percent, causing a 13 billion forint (50 million euro) loss to the industry, according to the agriculture ministry of Hungary. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh |
 Reuters - Wed May 10, 6:30 AM ET An eight-year-old girl (C), who was diagnosed with the H5N1 bird flu virus, exercises in a hospital in Suining, southwest China's Sichuan province May 10, 2006. (Stringer/Reuters) |
 Reuters - Thu May 11, 1:41 AM ET Israeli health workers examine a farm worker showing symptons of bird flu in town of Ashkelon, March 17, 2006. A skin patch designed to boost the immune response may help stretch out scarce supplies of influenza vaccine at the start of a pandemic, researchers at a small U.S. company said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Avi Rocach |
 AFP/File - Thu May 11, 12:04 PM ET A chicken vendor sit in front of his almost empty stand at the Treicheville market, in Abidjan, on May 4. The tiny Red Sea state of Djibouti reported east Africa's first human case of the deadly H5N1 deadly bird flu strain and said some chickens were also infected.(AFP/File/Kambou Sia) |
 AFP/File - Fri May 12, 6:56 AM ET Chicken vendors sit in front of their almost empty stands at the Treicheville market, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on May 4. Three other suspected human cases of bird flu are under investigation in the east African state of Djibouti, the World Health Organisation said following the first human case of the deadly H5N1 strain there.(AFP/File/Kambou Sia) |
 AFP/File - Fri May 12, 3:17 AM ET A poultry seller waits for customers at a wet market in Kuala Lumpur. The Malaysian poultry industry has lost 1.5 billion ringgit (418.94 million dollars) over bird flu fears since the country saw a rash of outbreaks earlier in the year, according to a report.(AFP/File/Teh Eng Koon) |
 AFP/File - Fri May 12, 3:12 AM ET A Chinese poultry vendor at a wholesale market. China has sacked five officials in its southwestern Sichuan province after they failed to respond to an outbreak of bird flu in poultry, state media has said.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston) |
 Reuters - Fri May 12, 9:48 AM ET A man unloads animal carcasses at the bush meat market of Yopougon in Abidjan May 12 2006. Last week, veterinary authorities confirmed Ivory Coast had the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, which has killed more than 100 people around the world since 2003. Antelope, snails and agouti -- rabbit-sized rodents also called bush rats or grasscutters -- have long been enjoyed as delicacies in Ivory Coast and nearby countries. But bush meat traders say demand has soared since the government started culling chickens and banned poultry sales in much of Abidjan. Reuters/Thierry Gouegnon |
 Reuters - Fri May 12, 10:13 AM ET Women work on bush meat at the bush meat market of Yopougon in Abidjan May 12, 2006. Last week, veterinary authorities confirmed Ivory Coast had the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, which has killed more than 100 people around the world since 2003. Antelope, snails and agouti -- rabbit-sized rodents also called bush rats or grasscutters -- have long been enjoyed as delicacies in Ivory Coast and nearby countries. But bush meat traders say demand has soared since the government started culling chickens and banned poultry sales in much of Abidjan. Reuters/Thierry Gouegnon |
 A child plays with pigeons in Jakarta, February 20, 2006. Teens and young adults should be the first vaccinated against bird flu, after health care workers who would deliver the vaccine and specialists involved in making it, two medical ethicists said on Thursday. REUTERS/Beawiharta |
 Reuters - Sat May 13, 1:45 PM ET Two-year-old Choukri Abdi Ali (L) cries on her hospital bed where she sits with her mother and two brothers inside the Dammerjoog health centre in Djibouti May 13, 2006. Choukri, the first confirmed human bird flu case in sub-Saharan Africa, is in stable condition while her three sick siblings had tests for possible infection, the World Health Organisation said. REUTERS/Omar Hassan |
 AP - Thursday, May 11, 2006 Adam Ray, a biological technician, inoculates eggs with fecal samples taken from birds at the U.S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center, Thursday, May 11, 2006, in Madison, Wis. Researchers at the NWHC are looking for the Asian strain of the H5N1 avian influenza virus. (AP Photo/Andy Manis) |
 AFP/File - Mon May 15, 12:47 PM ET A Romanian veterinary worker carries a goose during a culling campaign on March 7. Romanian health authorities were looking for several dozen tonnes of chicken product from a site where bird flu was found, striking fear among consumers.(AFP/File/Daniel Mihailescu) |
 AFP/File - Mon May 15, 12:44 PM ET French veterinarians inject a stork with a vaccine against the H5N1 virus. Europe must remain vigilant about bird flu even though the number of cases reported in recent weeks has declined, experts warned as they noted that the disease would spread again in the autumn when migratory birds return.(AFP/File/Frederick Florin) |
 AFP/File - Thu May 18, 12:09 PM ET A woman carries dead swans to the Danish Food Research Center in Aarhus, Jutland, in February 2006. Danish authorities reported the country's first case of H5 bird flu virus in poultry.(AFP/File/Henning Bagger) |
 Reuters - Mon May 15, 3:27 PM ET Chickens are caged in a shop in Cairo, Egypt in this October 30, 2005 file photo. Egypt's quick response to bird flu shows that even less-developed countries can cope with limited outbreaks if they follow guidelines, the United Nations' chief bird flu expert says. (Tara Todras-Whitehill/Files/Reuters) |
 Reuters - Tue May 16, 10:33 AM ET A woman suspected of having bird flu is ushered to a hospital in Bucharest May 16, 2006. Romania may cull around 1 million domestic birds to prevent the spread of avian flu to highly populated areas after the deadly strain was detected at a chicken farm, authorities said on Monday. REUTERS/Mihai Barbu |
 AFP/File - Tue May 16, 2:53 PM ET A sanitary worker disinfects a street in the southeastern Romanian village of Borcea, 180 kms east of Bucharest, in March 2006. A young Romanian woman showing bird flu-like symptoms does not have the disease but merely a common viral infection, doctors said after getting test results.(AFP/File/Daniel Mihailescu) |
 A boy arranges eggs for display at a shop in Dhaka on May 17, 2006. Bangladesh's poultry industry has suffered a 40 percent cutback in both production and sale as buyers shied away on fears of a bird flu outbreak, industry officials said on April. REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman |
 AFP/File - Wed May 17, 3:19 PM ET A rooster at the Kano Sabon Gari market. Symptoms of bird flu have been detected on a farm near the city of Kano in northern Nigeria, a month after the area was declared clear of the virus, an official said.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei) |
 AFP - Wed May 17, 4:04 AM ET Indonesia's bird flu toll jumped to 30 after the World Health Organisation confirmed five more people had died of the virus in the world's fourth most populous nation.(AFP/Bay Ismoyo) |
 AFP/File - Wed May 17, 6:46 AM ET A worker, without wearing any protection clothing, prepares to offload crates of chickens in Jakarta, May 14. Indonesia's bird flu toll has jumped to 30 after the World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed five more people had died of the virus in the world's fourth most populous nation.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo) |
 Reuters - Wed May 17, 9:56 AM ET An Indonesian boy covers his nose as an official burns pigeons in a campaign to stamp out bird flu in Jakarta, February 26, 2006. At least five members of an Indonesian family have been infected with bird flu, the WHO confirmed on Wednesday, after the case triggered widespread fears of human-to-human transmission. (Dadang Tri/Reuters) |
 Reuters - Wed May 17, 9:03 AM ET A red cross official sprays disinfectant at a bird market in Jakarta, February 26, 2006. At least five members of an Indonesian family have been infected with bird flu, the World Health Organization confirmed on Wednesday, after the case triggered widespread fears of human-to-human transmission. REUTERS/Dadang Tri |
 AFP/File - Wed May 17, 3:29 PM ET A veterinary assistant takes samples from shot wild birds during the special bird flu probe at Lake Dojran, 180 km southeast from Skopje, on the Macedonian-Greek border, February 2006. States in the Balkans and the former Soviet Union need assistance from European Union countries to protect themselves against a possible flu pandemic, a leading European expert said.(AFP/File/Robert Atanasovski) |
 Reuters - Thu May 18, 2:20 AM ET Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (C), Indonesian Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyanto, and Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation (FAO) Jacques Diouf (R), look at melons after they attend the opening ceremony of the 28th FOA Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific, in Jakarta May 18, 2006. Agricultural ministers from Asia-Pacific countries gather in Jakarta to discuss food security, poverty alleviation, bird flu prevention, natural disaster containment, pesticide management, transboundary animal disease prevention and bioenergy development. REUTERS/Supri |
 AFP/File - Wed May 17, 1:29 PM ET State-run hospital staff examine a man suspected of suffering from bird flu in Medan, North Sumatra, 14 May 2006. Indonesia's bird flu toll jumped to 30 after the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed five more people had died of the virus in the fourth most populous nation.(AFP/File/Rahmad) |
AFP/File - Wed May 17, 1:52 PM ET Buffalos are fed at a family's farm in Northern province of Vinh Phuc in 2004. Foot-and-mouth disease has spread across nearly half of Vietnam, affecting farmers already hit hard by the bird flu outbreaks of recent years, local and international veterinary officials said.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) |
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 Reuters - Thu May 18, 2:30 AM ET (L-R) Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation (FAO) Jacques Diouf, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesian Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyanto, and the Assistant Director-General and FAO Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific He Changchui, are photographed during the opening ceremony of the 28th Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nation (FAO) in Jakarta on May 18, 2006. Agricultural ministers from Asia-Pacific countries gather in Jakarta to discuss the food security, poverty alleviation, bird flu prevention, natural disaster containment, pesticide management, transboundary animal disease prevention and bioenergy development. REUTERS/Supri |
 AP - Thu May 18, 2:59 AM ET A vendor unloads crates of chickens at chicken market in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, May 18, 2006. Indonesia's president begged the international community to help fight the bird flu virus that has killed 30 people in his sprawling nation _ with five new deaths and one infection confirmed this week alone. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim) |
 AFP/File - Thu May 18, 10:58 AM ET Romanian health workers cull a chicken Marsilieni, Romania, 130 kilometres east of Bucharest, in December 2005. A veterinarian has been detained in Romania for allowing poultry ill with bird flu to be sold to farmers.(AFP/File/Bogdan Cristel) |
 AP - Thu May 18, 9:04 AM ET Joned Ginting, a bird flu victim, lies in a hospital in Medan, Nort Sumatra, Indonesia, on Thursday May 18, 2006. Poultry and pigs tested positive for bird flu in a district where the H5N1 virus killed four family members and infected another, Indonesia said Thursday, pleading for international help fighting the disease.(AP Photo/Lovel) |
 AFP/File - Thu May 18, 12:58 PM ET An Egyptian worker wearing a protective suit disinfects a vehicle at the entrance to the Giza zoo, in March 2006. An elderly woman died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in Egypt, marking the country's sixth fatal case of the virus in humans.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki) |
 AFP/File - Thu May 18, 1:49 PM ET A vendor sits among chicken eggs for sale at a local market in downtown Vientiane in October 2005. Laos is stepping up bird flu surveillance after a duck tested positive for the H5N1 strain earlier this year in the first known case since 2004, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation said.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam) |
 AFP/File - Thu May 18, 4:12 PM ET A veterinary worker carries a sack with dead ducks at a small farm affected by avian flu virus in the Siberian village of Oktyabrskoe in August 2005. Russian veterinary services said they had found new cases of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu near Omsk in Siberia, but insisted that the virus had been eliminated from other regions.(AFP/File/Yuri Tuto) |
AFP - Sat May 20, 6:37 PM ET Sanitary workers put a duck in a plastic container to be culled in Brasov city, 180 kms northeast from Bucharest. Authorities in central and northern Romania reported two suspected outbreaks of bird flu after two districts of the capital Bucharest were sealed off pending tests on birds there.(AFP/Daniel Mihailescu) |
 AP - Fri May 19, 8:52 PM ET An Indonesian racing pigeon fancier works with his birds Friday May 19, 2006 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Indonesia has come under fire in recent months for doing too little to stop the spread of bird flu, which has been found in poultry in two-thirds of the country's 33 provinces, but the government says it cannot afford to carry out mass culls of birds in all infected areas, one of the most basic containment guidelines.(AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim) |
AFP/File - Fri May 19, 2:59 PM ET Seagulls fly over the Vltava river in Prague in February 2006. Two more cases of bird flu have been identified in the Czech Republic in recent days, bringing the total to 14, a veterinary official said.(AFP/File/Michal Cizek) |
 Friday, May 19, 2006 3:48 AM EDT The Associated Press Dr. Jeff Runge, chief medical officer for the Department of Homeland Security, speaks during an interview in his office on Thursday, May 18, 2006 in Washington. Runge said bird flu will not be a critical threat until the virus is consistently spread between people, which so far has happened only in a few isolated cases overseas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) |
 AFP/File - Fri May 19, 12:22 PM ET Sanitary workers place culled domestic poultry in a plastic bag while another disinfects the area in the Romanian village of Borcea, March 2006. The manager of a major industrial poultry farm in Romania was arrested early on charges of allowing the farm to sell chickens possibly infected with a potentially lethal form of bird flu, prosecutors in the town of Brasov said.(AFP/File/Daniel Mihailescu) |
 AP - Sat May 20, 11:41 AM ET U.S. Ambassador Randall Tobias,right, the global USAID Administrator listens to Pakistani doctor Naeem Khawaja, left, as U.S. Ambassador in Pakistan Ryan C. Crocker looks on during their visit to Pakistani National Reference Lab in Islamabad, Pakistan Saturday, May 20, 2006. The USAID announced that it is purchasing Real-time Poly Chain Reaction(PCR) equipment to enable the Pakistani National Reference Lab to test samples to determine the strain of the Avian Flu Virus within six hours. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash,POOL) |
 Reuters - Sat May 20, 11:51 AM ET A sanitary worker disinfects a car on the outskirts of Bucharest May 20, 2006. Preliminary tests show traces of avian flu in the Romanian capital for the first time since it was detected in poultry in the Danube delta last October, an official said on Friday. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel |
 AP - Sat May 20, 11:43 AM ET A Romanian health worker removes her mask after exiting a quarantined area of Bucharest Romania, Saturday May 20 2006 after collecting blood samples from birds. Romanian authorities have quarantined a street and restricted access to other areas in the capital after domestic poultry tested positive for H5 bird flu, the city's mayor said, but officials appealed for calm. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) |
 Reuters - Sat May 20, 11:53 AM ET A sanitary worker arranges his mask on the outskirts of Bucharest May 20, 2006. Preliminary tests show traces of avian flu in the Romanian capital for the first time since it was detected in poultry in the Danube delta last October, an official said on Friday. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel
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 AP - Sat May 20, 10:27 AM ET Romanians are sprayed with disinfectant by a health worker as they leave a quarantined area of Bucharest, Romania, Saturday May 20, 2006. Romanian authorities have quarantined a street and restricted access to other areas in the capital after domestic poultry tested positive for H5 bird flu, the city's mayor said, but officials appealed for calm. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) |
 Reuters - Sat May 20, 11:38 AM ET A sanitary worker sprays a disinfectant solution on a motorcycle on the outskirts of Bucharest, Romania May 20, 2006. Preliminary tests show traces of avian flu in the Romanian capital for the first time since it was detected in poultry in the Danube delta last October, an official said on Friday. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel |
 AP - Sat May 20, 10:28 AM ET A Romanian health worker sprays disinfectant on a tractor as it leaves a quarantined area of Bucharest, Romania, Saturday May 20, 2006. Romanian authorities have quarantined a street and restricted access to other areas in the capital after domestic poultry tested positive for H5 bird flu, the city's mayor said, but officials appealed for calm. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) |
 Reuters - Sat May 20, 11:43 AM ET A sanitary worker disinfects a tractor car on the outskirts of Bucharest May 20, 2006. Preliminary tests show traces of avian flu in the Romanian capital for the first time since it was detected in poultry in the Danube delta last October, an official said on Friday. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel |
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 Reuters - Sat May 20, 10:56 AM ET A sanitary worker disinfects a vehicle on the outskirts of Bucharest, Romania May 20, 2006 after preliminary tests showed the presence of a bird flu strain in three hens found dead in this area. The rapid test showed the presence of the H5 virus on the outskirts of Romania's capital for the first time since it was detected in poultry in the Danube delta last October. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel |
 Reuters - Sat May 20, 11:42 AM ET A sanitary worker disinfects a car on the outskirts of Bucharest, Romania May 20, 2006. Preliminary tests show traces of avian flu in the Romanian capital for the first time since it was detected in poultry in the Danube delta last October, an official said on Friday. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel |
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 Reuters - Sat May 20, 11:55 AM ET A sanitary worker places a dead hen in a garbage bin on the outskirts of Bucharest May 20, 2006. Preliminary tests show traces of avian flu in the Romanian capital for the first time since it was detected in poultry in the Danube delta last October, an official said on Friday. REUTERS/Bogdan Maran/Mediafax Foto |
 AP - Sat May 20, 1:13 PM ET Darmonto, 46, gestures as he talks with the Associated Press during an interview at Muntilan village in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia, April 25, 2006. When chickens began dying at his local market, Darmanto gratefully collected them from vendors, chopping them up and tossing the raw meat to his pet catfish. He never wore gloves, and remembers smoking a cigarette with a bloody hand as he watched hundreds of fish greedily gobble up the scrawny black carcasses. The thought of bird flu never crossed Darmanto's mind. It couldn't have. He never heard of it until he himself became ill, hospitalized with a burning 105-degree fever, a racing heart and a tightness in his chest that left him struggling to breathe. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim) |
 Reuters - Sat May 20, 2:24 PM ET U.S. Ambassador and global USAID Administrator Randall Tobias (L) visits Pakistani National Reference Lab in Islamabad May 20, 2006. The USAID announced that it is purchasing Real-time Poly Chain Reaction(PCR) equipment to enable the Pakistani National Reference Lab to test samples to determine the strain of the Avian Flu Virus within six hours. REUTERS/B.K.Bangash/Pool |
 AP - Friday, May 19, 2006 U.S. Geological Survey biologist Dan Ruthrauff, right, removes a Western sandpiper, that will be tested for avian flu, from a mist in the Anchorage Coastal Wildlife Refuge in Anchorage, Alaska Friday, May 19, 2006, as Lee Tibbitts untangles other birds. This is the first testing of live birds for the virus in Alaska. (AP Photo/Al Grillo |
 AP - Thursday, May 18, 2006 Senate Majority Leader Sen. Bill First, R-Tenn., records his weekly podcast Thursday, May 18, 2006 in Washington. First personally responds to questions on his blog weekly and is among a slew of politicians who have taken to recording podcasts - self-made audio broadcasts that can be downloaded from the Internet to a computer or portable gadgets. The former heart surgeon who is considering a 2008 presidential bid said he saw the power of podcasts when one in which he discussed avian flu was featured on a conservative blog and downloaded a million times. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) |
 Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu, seen here in April 2006. China warned that it was "not optimistic" about the bird flu situation both within the country and globally, and urged officials to step up monitoring and reporting of the virus.(AFP/File/Jacques Brinon |
Reuters - Sun May 21, 4:57 PM ET A sanitary worker arranges his mask before entering a quarantined area in Bucharest May 21, 2006. Laboratory tests confirmed the presence of birds infected with avian flu in the Romanian capital for the first time since it was detected in poultry in the Danube delta last October, officials said on Sunday. Romania has reported more than 20 bird flu outbreaks over the past week, mostly in the central county of Brasov, just a month after the strain was said to have been eradicated in the Black Sea state.REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel |
AFP/File - Mon May 22, 1:52 PM ET Ducks rest inside a cage in Jakarta.Fears of a deadly bird flu pandemic have prompted Britain's Medical Research Council (MRC) to boost its funding for studies into the virus, the body said.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo) |
AP - Tue May 23, 6:09 AM ET An Indonesian man cools off a chicken in a crate at a chicken wholesaler Tuesday, May 23, 2006 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Two more people have died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in Indonesia, one of them belonging to a family on North Sumatra where the largest national cluster of infections has occurred, government health officials said Monday, as Malaysian authorities ordered increased measures to prevent birds being smuggled in from Indonesia. (AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyiah) |
AP - Tue May 23, 2:28 PM ET Seven-week-old healthy chickens are being housed in a National Veterinary Services Laboratories room where tests will be conducted for the deadly avian influenza virus, Tuesday, May 23, 2006, in Ames, Iowa. Researchers at the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service site make the final confirmatory diagnoses for the virus. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) |
Reuters - Wed May 24, 5:58 AM ET An Indonesian vendor wait for customers in a Jakarta market May 24, 2006. Limited human-to-human transmission of bird flu might have occurred in an Indonesian family but there is no evidence the virus has mutated to allow it to pass easily among people, the World Health Organisation said. REUTERS/Supri |
 Reuters - Wed May 24, 5:06 PM ET A soldier in Ivory Coast picks up a chicken to be culled in a suburb of Anoumabo May 24, 2006. The animal protection ministry began a cull of chickens on Wednesday in the economic capital of Abidjan. The presence of the deadly bird flu virus was detected in Anoumabo and another suburb in the West African state earlier this month. REUTERS/Luc Gnago |
 AP - Thu May 25, 2:36 AM ET Chicken vendors wait consumer at a market in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, May, 2006. Members of an Indonesian family who died of bird flu probably passed the disease among themselves, but health officials said there was no evidence the virus had mutated and decided against raising the pandemic alert level. (AP Photo/Irwin Ferdiansyah) |
 AFP - Thu May 25, 3:48 PM ET An Emirati man stands at a poultry farm in Sweyhan, Abu Dhabi. Bird flu fears have seen chicken consumption plunge nearly 50 percent in the United Arab Emirates forcing several poultry farms to close, an industry official said.(AFP) |
 AFP/File - Fri May 26, 12:39 PM ET A woman looks at geese in China's southwestern province of Sichuan, May 2005. An eight-year-old girl in southwestern China who was diagnosed with bird flu just over a month ago has been released from hospital, state media said.(AFP/File/Liu Jin) |
 AP - Sat May 27, 8:41 AM ET Two children cover thier nose when they pass poultry in Karo regency, North Sumatera, Indonesia, Saturday, May 27, 2006. The World Health Organization has for the first time asked the maker of the anti-bird flu drug Tamiflu to ready the global stockpile after human-to-human transmission was suspected in a family cluster in Indonesia, while three more bird flu deaths were confirmed in the country, officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara) |
 Reuters - Thu May 25, 8:07 AM ET An Indonesian girl sits by slaughtered chickens in Jakarta May 25, 2006. Local tests have confirmed an Indonesian child from the city of Bandung died of bird flu, a senior health ministry official said on Thursday. Local results on bird flu cases are not considered definitive and need confirmation from the World Health Organisation. REUTERS/Dadang Tri |
 Reuters - Sun May 21, 8:04 PM ET Marie Starace, dressed for her First Communion in Brooklyn, New York, is shown in this 1920 family photo. As health agencies worldwide scramble to stop bird flu from becoming a pandemic that could claim millions of lives, memories of the murderous flu that swept the globe almost 100 years ago haunt the 21st century, passed on from generation to generation. REUTERS/ |
 Reuters - Sun May 21, 8:00 PM ET Antonia Starace (C) with two of her children are seen in Brooklyn, New York in this 1915 family photo. Marie, about six years old, is on the left. As health agencies worldwide scramble to stop bird flu from becoming a pandemic that could claim millions of lives, memories of the murderous flu that swept the globe almost 100 years ago haunt the 21st century, passed on from generation to generation. REUTERS/Handout |
 Reuters - Sun May 21, 8:08 PM ET Toni Reinhold (L) sits with her great grandfather, Salvator Starace, in Brooklyn, New York in this 1960 family photo. As health agencies worldwide scramble to stop bird flu from becoming a pandemic that could claim millions of lives, memories of the murderous flu that swept the globe almost 100 years ago haunt the 21st century, passed on from generation to generation. REUTERS/Handout |
 AP - Wed May 24, 3:03 PM ET Fish and Wildlife Service Director H. Dale Hall, left, talks about government efforts to monitor and prevent a deadly bird flu virus from making its way into the U.S. from Asia, during an interview with the Associated Press in Washington, Wednesday, May 24, 2006. At right is P. Patrick Leahy, the U.S. Geological Survey's acting director. Hall said that swans traveling along the Pacific flyway are most likely to be bearers of the deadly bird flu virus among wild migratory birds but an even bigger worry is the prospect of the virus arriving by illegal animal trade. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) |
 Reuters - Fri May 26, 5:56 AM ET An Indonesian man, Jones Ginting, suspected of suffering birdflu, receives a treatment at the Adam Malik hospital in Medan, North Sumatra province on May 26, 2006. Health experts have now asked 54 people in a remote Indonesian village to quarantine themselves at home, up from 33 earlier, but none are reported to have any bird flu symptoms, the World Health Organisation said on Friday. The measures were taken after the H5N1 bird flu virus killed as many as seven family members in the Simbelang village in north Sumatra earlier this month. REUTERS/Stringer |
 AP - Fri May 26, 3:31 AM ET Ducks are hung to dry for roasting Friday, May 26, 2006 in Shanghai, China. An outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found in migratory birds in a remote area of western China, the government says. The case occurred in an isolated area of Tibet and neighboring Qinghai province on a same migration route where other wild birds died in an outbreak in late April, the Agriculture Ministry said late Wednesday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) |
 Reuters - Fri May 26, 4:48 AM ET An Indonesian worker unloads chickens from a vehicle in Jakarta May 24, 2006. Health experts have now asked 54 people in a remote Indonesian village to quarantine themselves at home, up from 33 earlier, but none are reported to have any bird flu symptoms, the World Health Organization said on Friday. (Supri/Reuters) |
 Reuters - Thu May 25, 8:07 AM ET An Indonesian worker gathers chickens in Jakarta May 25, 2006. Local tests have confirmed an Indonesian child from the city of Bandung died of bird flu, a senior health ministry official said on Thursday. Local results on bird flu cases are not considered definitive and need confirmation from the World Health Organisation. REUTERS/Dadang Tri |
 AP - Sat May 27, 8:50 AM ET A poultry vendor sits near her chicken in a market in Berastagi, Karo regency, North Sumatera, Indonesia, Saturday, May 27, 2006. The World Health Organization (WHO) has for the first time asked the maker of the anti-bird flu drug Tamiflu to ready the global stockpile after human-to-human transmission was suspected in a family cluster in Indonesia, while three more bird flu deaths were confirmed in the country, officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara) |
 Reuters - Wed May 24, 5:04 PM ET Workers from Ivory Coast's animal protection ministry gather chickens in a suburb of Anoumabo May 24, 2006. The animal protection ministry began a cull of chickens on Wednesday in the economic capital of Abidjan. The presence of the deadly bird flu virus was detected in Anoumabo and another suburb in the West African state earlier this month. Reuters/Luc Gnago |
 AP - Wed May 24, 4:43 AM ET An Indonesian agricultural official vaccinates a bird Wednesday May 24, 2006 in Surabaya, Indonesia. The U.N. health agency is investigating whether bird flu was passed from human-to-human among members of an Indonesian family, but said Wednesday there is no evidence the virus has mutated or spread beyond the family. |
 Reuters - Wed May 24, 5:23 PM ET Ivory Coast security forces watch as workers from the animal protection ministry cull chickens in a suburb of Anoumabo May 24, 2006. The animal protection ministry began a cull of chickens on Wednesday in the economic capital of Abidjan. The presence of the deadly bird flu virus was detected in Anoumabo and another suburb in the West African state earlier this month. REUTERS/Luc Gnago |
AFP/File - Sun May 28, 5:56 AM ET One of seven family members who have been confirmed to have been infected with H5N1 is hospitalized in Medan, on May 24. Health chiefs targeted Indonesian workers in Hong Kong Sunday in a renewed campaign to warn the public about the dangers of bird flu.(AFP/File) |
AFP/File - Sun May 28, 9:32 AM ET Tamiflu drugs and personal preventive equipment taken during a seminar on Combating Pandemic Influenza in Jakarta, on May 2. The World Health Organisation (WHO) said that it had alerted the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche in case it needed to call on a stockpile of the anti-influenza drug Tamiflu to fight a new bird flu outbreak in Indonesia.(AFP/File/Adek Berry) |
AP - Sun May 28, 8:47 AM ET Villagers go to their farm in Kubu Simbelang village, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Sunday, May 28, 2006. The world's eye has been focused on this tiny farming village in the mountains of northern Sumatra island since an extended family died of bird flu and no links to sick birds could be established, raising fear of possible human-to-human infection. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)
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AP - Sun May 28, 8:38 AM ET A chicken vendor weighs his chicken in Berastagi market, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Sunday, May 28, 2006. The world's eye has been focused on a nearby village in the mountains of northern Sumatra island since an extended family died of bird flu and no links to sick birds could be established, raising fear of possible human-to-human infection. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara) |
AP - Sun May 28, 8:39 AM ET Villagers walk out of a church after they finished Sunday service in Kubu Simbelang village, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Sunday, May 28, 2006. An extended family in the village had died of bird flu and no links to sick birds could be found, raising fear of possible human-to-human infection, thus locals blame black magic, not the virus, for the deaths. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara |
AP - Sun May 28, 8:37 AM ET A chicken vendor reads newspaper in his shop in Brastagi, North Sumatera, Indonesia, Sunday, May 28, 2006. The world's eye has been focused on a nearby village in the mountains of northern Sumatra island since an extended family died of bird flu and no links to sick birds could be established, raising fear of possible human-to-human infection. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara) |
 Reuters - Sun May 28, 11:56 PM ET A Bangladeshi chicken vendor waits for customers at a market in Dhaka May 29, 2006. No cases of bird flu have been reported in Bangladesh. But health officials have said the country is potentially at risk after outbreaks in neighbouring India and Myanmar. REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman |
 Reuters - Tue May 30, 6:28 AM ET A Russian doctor (R) prepares for a bird flu vaccination as two volunteers stand by in Moscow May 30, 2006. Clinical trials of the bird flu vaccine began May 30 on 240 volunteers. Although the deadly disease has claimed no human lives in Russia, around 1.1 million birds have died and 300,000 have been culled to control the spread of the virus since the beginning of February, RIA Novosti news agency reported. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin |
 Reuters - Tue May 30, 6:35 AM ET A Russian doctor demonstrates a box with vaccine against bird flu in Moscow, May 30, 2006. Clinical trials of the bird flu vaccinel began May 30 on 240 volunteers. Although the deadly disease has claimed no human lives in Russia, around 1.1 million birds have died and 300,000 have been culled to control the spread of the virus since the beginning of February, RIA Novosti news agency reported. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin |
Reuters - Tue May 30, 2:08 PM ET A sanitary worker sprays disinfectant at an exit point from a quarantined area in Bucharest, Romania May 22, 2006. The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a step-by-step plan on Tuesday, including the rapid mass use of the antiviral Tamiflu, for containing a bird flu outbreak if the virus starts to spread rapidly among humans. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel |
 AP - Tue May 30, 3:48 PM ET Members of LIPU (Italian League for the Protection of Birds) use binoculars during a demonstration in front of the ancient Coliseum in Rome, Tuesday, May 30, 2006, as scientists at a nearby international conference on bird flu urged countries to refrain from mass killings of birds. Scientists said that only further research can reveal whether the highly infectious H5N1 bird flu strain will become endemic in wild birds, causing periodic outbreaks across the globe for years to come. In foreground, two figures in gladiators' robe join the demonstration as, according to the legend, Rome founders Romulus and Remus were shown the site of the new town by the flight of birds. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito) |
Reuters - Tue May 30, 4:13 PM ET Birds fly over a building during sunset in Shanghai, China March 3, 2006. Poultry experts are turning to sophisticated computer imaging to help them prepare for the expected arrival of the deadly bird flu virus in the United States later this year. (Aly Song/Reuters) |
AFP/File - Wed May 31, 10:04 AM ET Migrating eurasian birds land in the lagoon of Orbetello, on the Toscan coast, Italy, in October 2005. Bird flu experts from more than 100 countries admitted they have "a long way to go" to understand the possibly critical role of wild birds in spreading the disease, following a two-day conference at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.(AFP/File/Vincenzo Pinto |
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