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Bird Flu Spreads Across Europe Photos


NETHERLANDS

Hens are seen inside a chicken farm in Baexem, southeast Netherlands, Feb. 16, 2006. After two dead swans in neighboring Germany had been preliminarily tested positive for the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain, the Dutch agriculture ministry urged commercial poultry farmers to get their birds indoors as soon as possible as a protective measure to prevent an outbreak of bird flu.

(Photo: AP Photo/John Peters)