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Tracking the Deadly Bird Flu Health experts fear that the virus might develop into a strain that passes easily from human to human, the genesis of the 1918 epidemic that killed tens of millions of people worldwide, as new research has shown.
June 7, 2006: A government agricultural officer prepares to vaccinate chickens in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia.
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April 28, 2006: A nurse reads book to an eight-year-old girl who has caught H5N1 bird flu at a local hospital in southwest China. The new case brought the total number of human cases of bird flu in China to 18.
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April 11, 2006: The grandmother of a 3-year-old girl who died of bird flu in Cambodia weeps during her funeral.
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Mar. 15, 2006: For centuries, Buddhists in Asia have released sorrows born of sickness, hunger and war through the simple, cathartic act of buying caged birds and freeing them, sometimes with a kiss. But a tradition that monks say dates to the time of the Buddha is now at risk.
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Mar. 10, 2006: Emergency service workers lock up a swan flock on the banks of the Vistula river in Poland, where five dead swans were found since last week. All swans from the flock will be tested for the H5N1 strain of bird flu, because four of the dead swans were infected.
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Mar. 9, 2006: A stone marten is seen in the Zoological Garden in Dresden, Germany. The H5N1 bird flu virus has been found in a stone marten, a German laboratory said Thursday, indicating the disease has spread to another species of mammal.
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Mar. 9, 2006: Medical experts collect chickens in the village of Cuke, south of the Albanian capital Tirana. Albania on Wednesday confirmed its first case of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in a chicken found in the southern Sarande coastal region, near the border with Greece.
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Mar. 3, 2006: An Indonesian child cries as health ministry officials take her blood sample for bird flu test at a neighborhood where some fowls were found H5N1-positive, in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Feb. 27, 2006: A man eats a raw egg during a promotional campaign for eggs and chicken in Ahmadabad, India. The National Egg Coordination Committee Poultry Development and Promotion Council organized a campaign to assure the safety of eggs and chicken meat.
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Feb. 27, 2006: A French veterinarian vaccinates a duck with the H5N2 vaccine in a poultry farm in Buanes. French officials have begun vaccinating thousands of geese and ducks against bird flu in the southwest region of the country believed to be at risk from the virus.
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Feb. 26, 2006: Indonesian children cover their noses as an agricultural official burns pigeons after birds in their area tested positive for bird flu in Jakarta.
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Feb. 26, 2006: Agriculture officials disinfect the hole where they destroyed a number of birds in Jakarta. Authorities in the Indonesian capital claimed that an intensive bird check campaign started the previous week had gone smoother than expected.
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Feb. 26, 2006: A Romanian man suspected of having bird flu is carried in a hospital in Bucharest. The 21-year-old man is from the village of Cetate, where the deadly H5N1 virus was detected in poultry earlier this month. Avian flu has been detected in 34 villages across Romania.
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Feb. 25, 2006: Officials carry pigeons during a door-to-door inspection for the avian flu virus in Jakarta. Almost 600 birds and chickens that tested positive for avian influenza were culled in the Indonesian capital on the first day of a citywide anti-bird flu sweep.
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Feb. 26, 2006: Two policemen block the way as poultry breeders and owners of shops selling chickens demonstrate in central Cairo following an outbreak of deadly bird flu in Egypt. They carry a banner reading "Have mercy, open our shops."
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Feb. 23, 2006: A pet bird sits in a health worker's hand before being culled for fear of a birdflu outbreak at Malaysia's Taman Sang Kancil in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia said tests on five people admitted to hospital with breathing problems had proved negative.
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Jan. 12, 2006: As the number of Turkey's bird flu cases continues to rise, authorities have begun killing thousands of birds to prevent the spread of the deadly H5N1 virus.
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Jan. 10, 2005: A child surrenders ducks for destruction in Istanbul, Turkey. "We take the battle very seriously. It's ongoing," said Hehdi Eker, Turkey's health minister.
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Jan. 9, 2006: Hasan Ali Kocyigit, 6, is welcomed home from a hospital by his parents Zeki, left, and Marifet, second from left, in the Turkish town of Dogubayazit. All three of Hasan's siblings died a week earlier from of a strain of avian influenza, but his tests were negative.
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Jan. 6, 2006: A health worker in eastern Turkey disinfects a building that houses poultry. The latest cases were found in four towns in the country's east, center and northern Black Sea coast, demonstrating the extent to which the virus has now spread across much of Turkey.
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Dec. 10, 2005: People in India feed migratory birds along the banks of the Ganges River in Allahabad. India and Bangladesh are situated along major bird migration routes and are considered to be at risk for bird flu infection.
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Nov. 28, 2005: A worker selects a bird for a fight at a breeding farm in the outskirts of Bangkok. The Thai government has lifted a ban on cockfights that had been imposed to halt the spread of bird flu.
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Nov. 16, 2005: Turkeys at a farm west of Belgrade, Serbia. Although the lethal virus has not been identified in Serbia, the country is on alert for a possible outbreak of bird flu.
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Nov. 15, 2005: A farmer gathers ducks to be destroyed at a farm Hanoi. Vietnam accelerated the slaughter of poultry in two major cities, the deadline for an end to raising fowl there, as it tries to stop the spread of bird flu.
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Nov. 11, 2005: Newborn chicks are moved on a conveyor belt at a poultry farm in Burgos, Spain. A major outbreak of bird flu in the European Union's poultry flock could close off exports worth $1 billion.
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Nov. 8, 2005: A virologist marks a SPF (specific pathogen free) egg for inoculation during a bird flu detection test at Portugal's Veterinarian Institute in Lisbon.
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Nov. 7, 2005: Star anise (Illicium verum), is the spice that is the starting point for the bird flu drug Tamiflu.
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Oct. 11, 2005: Turkish officials collect chickens in an effort to contain the outbreak. Poultry farmers in the western region of the country faced fines and possible jail time if they did not comply.
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Oct. 9, 2005: A Romanian man is inoculated in a clinic in the village of Agighiol, about 200 miles east of Bucharest. Authorities ordered all farm birds in the southeastern Danube delta to be kept indoors after the discovery of three cases in the region.
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Oct. 13, 2005: In this transmission electron micrograph, the avian flu virus, in gold, grows inside MDCK cells.
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Sept. 26, 2005: Indonesians mourn the loss of Karwati, a woman who died from the disease in a hospital in Jakarta.
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Sept. 23, 2005: An Indonesian official vaccinates a domestic parrot in Jakarta. The Agriculture Ministry ordered the immediate slaughter of poultry in affected areas.
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Sept. 20, 2005: An Australian pelican has a blood sample taken at Gembira Loka Zoo. The Indonesian government imposed several measures to help prevent further outbreak.
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Jan. 24, 2004: A farmer in Thailand collects eggs from chickens scheduled to be destroyed. News of positive tests of the avian flu caused a decline in poultry sales in Bangkok; but the tourism industry showed no signs of decline.
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Dec. 22, 2003: Officials bury ducks in South Korea near an area affected by the disease. Nearly one million animals were destroyed in an effort to prevent the spread of the disease.
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