Indonesia health official quarantine chickens before slaughter in Gilimanuk, north Bali, Indonesia, Thursday March, 29, 2007. The nation hardest hit by bird flu, announced two more human deaths from the H5N1 virus Wednesday, a day after it agreed to resume sending virus samples to international researchers on condition they wouldn't be made freely available to commercial vaccine makers.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh poultry farm workers look on in Gajipur, the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, March 28, 2007. Thousands of chickens were slaughtered after bird flu H5N1 virus was detected in the country.
Indonesia
Hospital staff monitors the vital signs of a suspected bird flu patient at a hospital in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 13, 2007. The 20-year-old woman was in critical condition after contracting bird flu, a Health Ministry official said.
China
A chicken vendor waits for customers at a market in Beijing, Thursday, March 1, 2007. A farmer in southeast China has contracted the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, state media reported Thursday. Xinhua News Agency said it was China's first human case of bird flu since Jan. 10 when the government said a 37-year-old farmer in Anhui province in eastern China had contracted bird flu but had recovered.
Pakistan
A worker of Pakistan Agriculture Research Council sprays chemicals at a cage of birds in Islamabad Zoo Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007, in Islamabad, Pakistan. Authorities closed the zoo after the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was found in its four peacocks and two geese, officials said.
Russia
A Russian sanitary expert vaccinates fowl in the village of Solodovo, 87 miles west of Moscow, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007. By Thursday, the H5N1 bird flu strain was confirmed in eight suburban Moscow districts, a top Russian veterinary official said, as experts enforced a quarantine in several villages in an effort to keep the disease from spreading.
Indonesia
A chicken peers out of its pen at a chicken wholesale market Monday Feb. 12, 2007, in central Jakarta, Indonesia. The H5N1 bird flu virus has prompted the slaughter of millions of birds across Asia since late 2003, and has caused the deaths of 167 people worldwide, including Indonesia's latest victim, a 20-year-old woman who died on Feb. 11, according to Indonesian officials.
South Korea
Health officials wearing protective suits arrive to slaughter at a poultry farm where the bird flu virus was found in Anseong, about 48 miles south of Seoul, South Korea, Feb. 10, 2007. Quarantine officials began slaughtering hundreds of thousands of poultry after a fresh outbreak of bird flu in a province near the South Korean capital, the agriculture ministry said.
Turkey
A sign reading: "There is bird flu in this village" is seen at the entrance to the quarantined village of Bogazkoy near the southeastern city of Batman, Turkey, where 170 domestic fowl died of bird flu, Feb. 9, 2007. Four children who showed flu-like symptoms after contact with sick fowl later tested negative for bird flu as did two adults and another child who were hospitalized as a precaution.
Egypt
Birds fly over the great pyramid in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007. The country confirmed its 12th human death from the H5N1 avian flu strain. Since first detected in Egypt in February 2006, bird flu has spread to at least 19 of the country's 26 provinces.
Great Britain
A car passes a warning sign on a road near the Bernard Matthews turkey farm in Holton, England Sunday, Feb. 4, 2007. The deadly strain of H5N1 bird flu has been found in some of the 160,000 turkeys at the farm. All had been culled by the next day as a number of countries either banned or began restricting the import of British poultry imports as investigators tried to identify the source of the virus.
Japan
A worker prepares to cull chickens at a farm in the town of Takahashi in Okayama prefecture Jan. 30, 2007. Authorities started culling about 12,000 chickens after authorities determined that the virulent H5 family of the bird flu virus killed dozens of chickens at the farm. Another suspected outbreak in Shitomi town in southwestern Miyazaki prefecture would mark Japan's fourth bird flu incident in a month.
Indonesia
Indonesian government officials burn chicken coops during a culling in Jakarta Monday, Jan. 29, 2007. Following its sixth human death in a month, and its 63rd overall, government officials said on Jan. 31, it will declare bird flu a national disaster. In a bid to tackle the spread of the disease, the country is preparing for a ban on backyard poultry farming, to be imposed on Feb 1.
Taiwan
A lab worker performs tests at the National Health Research Institute, Monday, Jan. 29, 2007, in Miaoli, northeastern Taiwan. Taiwan's National Health Research Institute said Monday that it has developed a high-yield, safe bird flu vaccine, becoming one of the countries near the stage of producing a vaccine against the H5N1 virus.
Indonesia
An Indonesian official tests samples from poultry at a market on Wednesday, Jan, 24, 2007, in Denpasar Bali, Indonesia. Five people in Indonesia have died from the virus since the start of 2007, while China, Egypt, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Nigeria and Thailand have all seen a resurgence of the deadly H5N1 strain in poultry and birds this year.
China
Whooper Swans swim on the Qinghaihu Lake at Garila Village Jan. 23, 2007, in Gangcha County of Qinghai Province, China. China has increased its vigilance against the virus after cases of poultry and human infections have been reported in Vietnam, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan. U.N. health officials urged Asian countries to be on heightened alert for new outbreaks ahead of the upcoming Chinese New Year and Tet holidays.
Indonesia
An Indonesian agricultural official sprays disinfectant on a bird house in a large park Friday Jan. 19, 2007, in Jakarta, Indonesia. Residents handed over hundreds of chickens and other fowl for slaughter Friday as authorities in Indonesia's capital scrambled to stop the spread of bird flu after a spike in human deaths.
Japan
Workers in protective suits disinfect the perimeter of a poultry farm where approximately 750 chickens died in the town of Kiyotake in western Miyazaki prefecture Friday, Jan. 12, 2007. A new outbreak of bird flu was detected at a poultry farm in southern Japan on Jan. 24, raising fears a virulent flu virus that struck the region earlier this month has spread.
Indonesia
Indonesian men lower the coffin of a 14-year-old boy who died of bird flu Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2007, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia. Tjandra Yoga Aditama, deputy director of Persahabtan Hospital, said the boy died four days after being admitted with flu-like symptoms. A 37-year-old woman from the same area died on Jan. 11. They were the country's first fatalities in six weeks.
Vietnam
Ducks raised at a farm in Ha Tay province, near Hanoi, swim on Jan. 9, 2007, despite a government ban on restocking waterfowl in an effort to prevent bird flu from spreading. Some 30,000 birds died or were culled in three southern Vietnamese provinces last month in the country's first reported bird flu outbreaks among poultry in a year. Experts fear that the virus may spread to other countries soon.