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 | A woman fetches a dead chicken from a chicken pen at an egg farm in the suburbs of Beijing, Thursday Oct. 27, 2005. China insisted Thursday that it was doing all that it can to prevent the spread of bird flu as authorities investigated reports that a 12-year-old girl died after coming in contact with sick chickens. China has reported three bird flu cases in chickens, ducks and geese in the northern region of Inner Mongolia, in Anhui province in the east and central China's Hunan province. click to open  |  | Chinese residents buy live poultry at a wholesale market in Beijing October 25, 2005. China has reported a fresh outbreak of bird flu as fears grow across the world of an impending pandemic, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday. The latest outbreak, among geese, was in a village in the suburbs of Tianchang city in the eastern province of Anhui, Noureddin Mona, of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation, told Reuters. He said the Ministry of Agriculture had told him on Monday 2,100 birds had been infected, 550 had died and 45,000 had been culled. click to open |  | A Chinese farmer sprays disinfectant in his farm in Nanhui District in Shanghai October 25, 2005. China has reported a fresh outbreak of bird flu as fears grow across the world of an impending pandemic, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday. The latest outbreak, among geese, was in a village in the suburbs of Tianchang city in the eastern province of Anhui, Noureddin Mona, of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, told Reuters. He said the Ministry of Agriculture had told him on Monday 2,100 birds had been infected, 550 had died and 45,000 had been culled. click to open |  | Visitors play with doves at a park Tuesday Oct. 25, 2005 in Shanghai, China. A bird flu outbreak sickened 2,100 geese in eastern China and killed about a quarter of them, a U.N. official said Tuesday, in the country's second outbreak reported in a week. click to open |  | A Chinese man carries ducks to a basket filled with ducks waiting to be sold at a fowl market in Nanjing, in east China's Jiangsu province October 25, 2005. Fears of a bird flu pandemic among people has seriously hampered efforts to prevent the spread of an outbreak among birds because not enough money is being spent on prevention and surveillance, two leading food health officials said on Monday. click to open |  | A Chinese soldier selects a chicken at a chicken market in Beijing October 22, 2005. China will close its borders if there is a single case of human-to-human transmission of bird flu in the country, the South China Morning Post reported on Saturday, quoting a Chinese health official. click to open |  | A Chinese man standing on a bridge looks at a duck swimming in the wet lands at Han Shi Qiao natural reserve outside of Beijing Saturday Oct. 22, 2005.China was considering Friday whether to stockpile anti-flu drugs as a visiting U.N. bird flu expert warned that migrating wild fowl appear more susceptible to the disease than before. As wild birds migrate across national borders, more outbreaks are possible, said David Nabarro, chief U.N. coordinator for avian and human influenza. click to open |  | Chickens run through an alley in a farm in Shanghai's suburb, China October 22, 2005. China will close its borders if there is a single case of human-to-human transmission of bird flu in the country, a Hong Kong newspaper reported on Saturday, while a defiant Taiwan said it would copy a patented antiviral drug. click to open |  | A Chinese vendor (L) slaughters a duck at a market in Nanjing, in east China's Jiangsu province, October 22, 2005. China stepped checks against bird flu and urged people to maintain good hygiene, a spokesman for China's Ministry of Health said on Friday. click to open |  | A Chinese vendor cleans a slaughtered chicken with boiled water at a market in Nanjing, in east China's Jiangsu province, October 22, 2005. China stepped checks against bird flu and urged people to maintain good hygiene, a spokesman for China's Ministry of Health said on Friday. click to open |
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