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| | |  | | | A chicken is tested for the bird flu virus at a poultry farm in Beijing. Beijing, hit hard by last year's SARS epidemic, has stepped up checks for the bird flu virus sweeping across Asia. [Agencies] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Ou Guangyuan, deputy Party Secretary of South China's Guangdong Province, dines at a chicken restaurant in Guangzhou on February 3, 2004 to boost confidence with bird flu virus-free chicken food. Ou said poultry and chicken products on Guangdong market are safe and people should not overreact to bird flu. Poultry sales has dropped sharply since after China's first bird flu case was discovered in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on January 27. [southcn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Workers clean the "bird garden", a street selling pet birds in Hong Kong February 3, 2004. The death toll of victims from bird flu rose to twelve on Monday in Asia. [Reuters] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Live poultry vendors queue up for free influenza vaccination at a clinic in Hong Kong February 2, 2004. Two more people in Vietnam have die after contracting bird flu, bringing to 12 the number of deaths in an epidemic that is sweeping Asia and which scientists fear may now be transmitted from person to person. [Reuters] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A chicken is left in its cage at an outdoor market in Beijing on February 2, 2004. Chicken vendors in China's capital said business had declined an estimated 70 percent since the outbreak of bird flu on the mainland. [Reuters] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A student has his temperature checked for symptoms of the deadly bird flu virus at a college in Hong Kong February 2, 2004. The territory's worries over the spread of bird flu across Asia is growing after experts reported a possible case of human-to-human transmission in Vietnam. [Reuters] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A Chinese shopper walks past a row of shutdown poultry stalls at market in Shanghai February 2, 2004. China's densely populated financial hub of Shanghai has halted trade of live poultry in a bid to stop the spread of deadly bird flu, the government said on Monday. [Reuters] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A worker with the local animal quarantine authorities burns chicken in Chengdu, Southwest China¡¯s Sichuan Province January 31, 2004. More than 20,000 chickens from bird flu hit Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region were found at the Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport. All the 20,000 chicken were destroyed to prevent the spread of the virus. [newsphoto] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Two epidemic prevention staff stop a car for disinfection in Ezhou of Hubei Province. Every vehicle passing in and out Ezhou will be disinfected after the discovery of suspected bird flu case in the region on February 1, 2004. [Xinhua] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A chicken is tested for the bird flu virus at a poultry farm in Beijing.Chinese officials now have reports of confirmed or suspected bird flu cases in one third of the country.[Agencies] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Two health workers wearing full protective gears and holding disinfectant sprayers stand guard in Shanghai.Chinese officials have ordered efficient measures to guard against the virus as more suspected cases were found in five provinces.[Agencies] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A fresh roast Peking duck is served to American tourists Loralee Blocn (left) and James Johnson (second left) at the Hepingmen Quan Ju De Roast Duck Restaurant, Feb 1, 2004. The ducks used at such restaurants come from exclusive farms and go through strict quarantine before sent for one-hour roasting, Beijing officials said. [newsphoto] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Dr Yeoh Eng-kiong, Hong Kong secretary for health, welfare & food, urges a chicken vendor to wear protective gear when handling live poultry at Yeung Uk Road Market in Tsuen Wan January 27, 2004. [newsphoto] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A masked worker checks a chicken at a sealed-off chicken farm in Qingyuan, southern China, January 28, 2004. China has begun the slaughter of poultry near three far-flung farms to halt the spread of the deadly bird flu virus, a day after a discovering an outbreak near its border with Vietnam. [Reuters] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Chickens look out from their cage at a Hong Kong market on January 28, 2004. The bird flu virus sweeping Asia was found in ducks in China, the Chinese government said that no infections had been found in humans. The majority of live chickens available in Hong Kong are imported, mainly the Chinese mainland. The chickens are all vaccinated against bird flu while ducks and geese are checked to be in good health condition. [AP] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Relatives stand beside patients suspected of having contracted the bird flu virus. Vietnamese health authorities said there are two new confirmed deaths from the bird flu outbreak.[Agencies] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A farmer sprays disinfectant at his chicken farm in Wuhan, the capital of China's central province of Hubei, January 28, 2004. The 10 Asian countries hit by the rapid spread of bird flu that has killed at least eight people and threatens to develop into an epidemic worse than SARS promised to fight it together. [Reuters] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A man eats fried chicken at lunch time at Kentucky Fried Chicken retaurant in Jakarta. KFC in Vietnam already had closed serving chicken, but would switch to a fish menu as the bird flu sweeps around Asian countries.[Reuters]
| | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A Thai livestock official collects chickens to be destroyed at a farm in Supanburi province, January 25, 2004. Thailand brought in troops and prisoners Sunday to kill millions of chickens and stop the spread of highly contagious bird flu, which has jumped to humans in Viet Nam and Thailand and now spread to Indonesia. With most people fearing contamination, 400 soldiers were drafted to kill the hens in Suphan Buri province northwest of Bangkok. [Reuters] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Health workers in Taipei throw chickens which may be infected with bird flu in a pit, Sunday, January 18, 2004. Taiwan began culling 55,000 chickens at a farm in the island's south on Saturday after a mild form of bird flu was discovered. [Reuters] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A 15-month-old baby girl breathes with assistance during her treatment for the avian influenza strain A in an Hanoi hospital January 14, 2004. Viet Nam on Wednesday reported two more suspected bird flu cases,the baby girl and a man and up to 12 Vietnamese died from 'bird flu.' Vietnamese health officials said pigs could be possible carriers of the illness. [Reuters] | | | | | | | | | |
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