BANGLADESH: Parrots are kept on the roadside inside a cage after their bath at an animal market in Dhaka, October 30 2005. Bangladesh has banned the import of all types of birds as a precaution against bird flu, Bangladesh's Fisheries and Livestock Minister Abdullah Al Noman said. (Farjana K Godhuly, AFP)
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IRAQ: Iraqi Kurdish women display turkeys at birds market in the Kurdish city of Arbil, in northern Iraq, October 30 2005. Local Kurdish agriculture minister Azad Mulla Afandi said two dead chickens that were discovered in Arbil had been sent to Egypt for analysis to check if they died of Bird Flu. (Safin Hamid, AFP)
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PAKISTAN: A Pakistani poultry worker sorts out dead chickens from the flocks in the cages at a poultry farm on the outskirts of Karachi, 16 January 2004. About three to four million birds have died since November 2003, poultry farmers say, and the Pakistani authorities have termed the cause of the widespread death as an outbreak of Avian influenza H-7 and H-9. (Aamir Qureshi, AFP)
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CHINA: A group of geese walk as a local man fishes at a waterfront in Guanghan city, in China's southwestern province of Sichuan, 28 May 2005. (Liu Jin, AFP)
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INDONESIA: Mutiara Gayatri, 6, who is suspected of being infected with bird flu falls asleep surrounded by hospital equipment at the infection hospital in Jakarta, September 17 2005. Indonesia on September 17 promised firm actions to wipe out bird flu after announcing its fourth human death from the virus and urged the public to remain calm. (Bay Ismoyo, AFP)
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VIETNAM: A Vietnamese seller shows her chicken to be sold at a market in Hanoi, Vietnam November 2 2005. Vietnam has stepped up its fight against bird flu, banning raw blood pudding and prohibiting raising poultry in big cities, violators of the ban will be severely punished, state-controlled media reported. (Apichart Weerawong, AP)
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THAILAND: A Thai Muslim boy watches song birds at his home near Pattani, Thailand, September 5 2003. Bird flu has devastated Thailand's poultry industry, but it has also caused big problems for people who raise birds for singing instead of eating. (David Longstreath, AP)
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SERBIA: A swan swims at Ada Ciganlija Lake in Belgrade, on Monday, October 31 2005. Serbia is on alert for a possible outbreak of bird flu which scientists say could be transmitted by wildfowl migrating west along the Danube waterway from neighbouring Croatia and Romania. (Darko Vojinovic, AP)
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RUSSIA: Veterinary workers (not pictured) burn hens infected with bird flu at the Siberian village of Oktyabrskoye in the Ural mountains region of Chelyabinsk, August 24 2005. The bird flu epidemic is under control in Russia and stabilising fast, Russia's sanitary chief said, as quarantine restrictions were lifted from over a dozen villages previously stricken by the disease. (Yuri Tutov, AFP)
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HOLLAND: This photo taken August 18 2005, shows chickens indoors in a poultry farm in Waddinxveen. Dutch authorities August 22 2005 ordered all poultry to be kept inside amid signs that the avian flu epidemic is moving west across Russia eventhough the European Union's executive commission downplayed the spread of the virus. (Koen Suyk, AFP)
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BOSNIA: A gull flies above the lake Modrac near Lukavac 75km north of Sarajevo, northeastern Bosnia, on Tuesday, November 1 2005 during sunset. Bosnia is on alert for a possible outbreak of bird flu which scientists say could be transmitted by wildfowl migrating west along the Danube waterway from neighbouring Croatia. (Amel Emric, AP)
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PHILIPPINES: A girl watches over a pet rooster perched on a shanty rooftop in Manila, October 14 2005. World Health Organisation Western Pacific director Shigero Omi says birds living in cramped spaces with their owners is helping spread the virulent H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus. (AFP)
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ROMANIA: This photo taken October 8 2005 is of a Romanian veterinary worker preparing a domestic goose for extermination as culling continues in the quarantined village of Ceamurlia de Jos, 350km southeast of Bucharest. Laboratory tests in Bucharest have established the presence of bird flu antibodies in the ducks, Agriculture minister Gheorghe Flutur said, while declaring a state of emergency in the affected area. (AFP)
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ITALY: This picture taken on October 28 2005 in Forli during a chickens' producer meeting to protest against the chicken consumption fall across Italy where consumers feel they are on the front-line of a possible deadly H5N1 bird flu virus. (Nico Casamassima, AFP)
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FRANCE: A municipal employee captures ducks from an open-air basin following a municipal ban on birds in the city, October 27 2005 in Bordeaux. The UN food agency has strongly criticised pre-emptive bans on poultry imports to prevent the spread of bird flu, saying they flout established rules and do not distinguish between infected and non-infected countries. (Patrick Bernard, AFP)
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