AP photo from the Kyoto Prefectural Government via KyodoBirds buried Workers in protective suits use a power shovel to bury bags containing dead chickens in a huge pit in Tanba, southwestern Japan. Four bird flu outbreaks have been recorded in Japan, including two in the town of Tanba.
AP photo by TrisnadiChickens head to market An Indonesian man transports chickens to a market in Surabaya, East Java. The government said Tuesday that Indonesia has the same deadly strain of bird flu that has jumped to humans elsewhere in Asia, but that no one in the country have been infected.- Reuters photo by Wilson ChuBird-flu vaccine sought As another Asian country reported its first cases of bird flu Tuesday, researchers in the U.S. and around the world were beginning the difficult work of developing a vaccine against the virus. A vendor sells chickens at a market in Beijing. China reported its first cases of bird flu Tuesday in a province bordering Vietnam.
AP photo from the Kyoto Prefectural Government via Kyodo
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Birds buried
Workers in protective suits use a power shovel to bury bags containing dead chickens in a huge pit in Tanba, southwestern Japan. Four bird flu outbreaks have been recorded in Japan, including two in the town of Tanba.
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Archived coverage of the 2004 avian flu outbreak and the ongoing threat of a possible pandemic.
