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Tigers suffer from bird flu
Updated: 2004-10-23 01:16
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| Two Thai workers feed Bengali tigers with fresh pork at the
Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Chonburi province, southeast of Bangkok, Thailand
Friday, Oct. 22, 2004. Thai authorities may cull five more sick tigers at
a private zoo suspected of having bird flu after 18 others were killed and
another 42 died. Officials at this private zoo are first trying medical
treatment to save the tigers, which became sick after eating raw chicken
carcasses believed to be infected with bird flu. [AP] |
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| Two Bengali tigers pass each other at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in
Chonburi province, southeast of Bangkok, Thailand Friday, Oct. 22, 2004.
Thai authorities may cull five more sick tigers at a private zoo suspected
of having bird flu after 18 others were killed and another 42 died.
Officials at this private zoo are first trying medical treatment to save
the tigers, which became sick after eating raw chicken carcasses believed
to be infected with bird flu.
[AP] |
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