IBird flu can be hard


Reuters Photo
June 6, 2006:
A child plays with dead chickens at a poultry market in Nanjing



Reuters Photo
June 4, 2006
An earthquake survivor sleeps inside a chicken coop at the Pundong village in Bantul, near the earthquake-hit Indonesian city of Yogyakarta, June 4, 2006. The risk of infectious disease remains high because of the crowding and devestation in the quake-hit area and there have been worries over survivors taking refuge in chicken coops, with potential exposure to the bird flu virus in a country that has recorded 36 human deaths from the H5N1 strain.




Associated Press
June 4, 2006
Indonesian children play with a chicken in Kedaung village, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) outside Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, June 3, 2006. The village where two children from the same family died of the H5N1 bird flu virus but scientists have been unable to trace the contact with relatives and infected birds and believe limited human-to-human transmission may have occurred. However, the virus has not mutated and no one outside the family has fallen ill.



Reuters Photo
June 4, 2006
A family of earthquake survivors rest inside a chicken coop at the Pundong village in Bantul, near the earthquake-hit Indonesian city of Yogyakarta, June 4, 2006. The risk of infectious disease remains high because of the crowding and devestation in the quake-hit area and there have been worries over survivors taking refuge in chicken coops, with potential exposure to the bird flu virus in a country that has recorded 36 human deaths from the H5N1 strain.



AFP Photo
June 2, 2006
Sanitary workers put a culled chicken in a plastic bag in Brasov city, 180 kmS northeast from Bucharest, May 2006. The European Union has widened an import ban on Romanian poultry to the whole country because the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu has resurfaced and is "spreading rapidly," officials said.



Associated Press Photo
June 2, 2006
Suryoto weeps over the grave of his daughter who died from bird flu on Thursday at a cemetery on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, June 2, 2006. Suryoto's 10-year-old son died three days earlier of bird flu. A spike in human cases has put Indonesia on pace to soon become the world's hardest-hit country. The World Health Organization has yet to confirm the most recent death, which would bring the country's official death toll from the H5N1 virus to 37.



Associated Press Photo
June 2, 2006
A chicken vendor, takes a chicken out of it's cage at the poultry section of a market in Jakarta, Indonesia on Friday June 2, 2006. An 8-year-old girl has died of bird flu, a health official said Friday citing local tests, as a spike in human cases put Indonesia on pace to soon become the world's hardest-hit country. The World Health Organization has yet to confirm the death, which would bring the country's toll from the H5N1 virus to 37.



Reuters Photo
June 1, 2006
Officials cull chickens and other poultry in Cikuku village of West Java, Indonesia, June 1, 2006. Workers in Indonesia culled 1,600 chickens on Thursday in a village where the H5N1 bird flu virus killed a 15-year-old boy this week, and the government said owners who refused to surrender their poultry could be jailed.



AFP Photo
May 31, 2006
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.




Reuters Photo
May 30, 2006
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.



Associated Press Photo
May 29, 2006
Indonesian agriculture workers vaccinate a duck in Surabaya, Indonesia, Monday, May 29, 2006. Indonesia on Monday announced a World Health Organization laboratory had confirmed an 18-year-old man from West Java was the latest to die of bird flu, bringing the toll to 37.



AFP Photo
May 29, 2006
One of seven family members who have been confirmed to have been infected with H5N1 is hospitalized in Medan, May 24. Indonesia has confirmed the country's 36th death from bird flu, after tests by a World Health Organisation-accredited laboratory found an 324-year-old man had died of the virus.

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