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H5N1: New Outbreaks Photos


March 24, 2006

A Jordanian police officer with protective gear holds a cage of pet birds to be confiscated in Ajloun city, 40 miles north of Amman, Jordan. The country's first cases of avian flu were discovered in turkeys raised in a backyard near the city north of the capital of Amman. On the same day, the WHO confirms the bird flu death of a 3-year-old girl in Cambodia, rising the global human death toll to 104.

(Photo: AP Photo/Nader Daoud)