 | A worker guides a herd of ducks at a market in Taipei on Oct 27 2005. Governments across Asia redoubled their efforts to combat bird flu as China insisted it had the virus under control, with state media saying a girl who showed flu-like symptoms died of pneumonia. click to open  |
 | An Indonesian livestock vendor waits for customers with his chickens for sale at a market in Jakarta Oct 6th 2005. The United States warned that transparent medical reporting was vital to combating a possible avian flu pandemic which could kill millions, as it convened an 80-nation conference on the disease. click to open |
 | A British laboratory is working to use genetic technology to create a vaccine which could combat the spread of bird flu on Jan 31st, 2004 click to open |
 | A Thai woman buys chicken at China town in Bangkok on January 20, 2004. Japan's Agriculture Ministry said on Thursday it would temporarily suspend imports of poultry from Thailand after reports of bird flu in that country. click to open |
 | A woman carries chickens to sell at a market in Hanoi, Vietnam on Thursday, July 28, 2005. Vietnam will begin a mass bird flu vaccination of chickens and ducks in two provinces on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2005, to try to slow the virus that has devastated Asian poultry stocks and killed 57 people. Twenty million doses of vaccine from China will be injected into poultry during the pilot program. click to open |
 | A Vietnamese man carries slaughtered chickens and ducks to a restaurant in Hanoi Sunday, Jan. 18, 2004. Bird flu has killed at least four people in Vietnam, state media reports. click to open |
 | Chickens feed at a poultry farm in northern Phu Tho province, 72 miles from Hanoi, January 18, 2004. Experts from the World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization were hunting for cases of humans infected by bird flu in southern Vietnam after four deaths in the north. click to open |
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