 | A Chinese vendor collects ducks at a market in Xiangfan, in the middle of China's Hubei province 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  |
 | Bird flu in Mainland China: A couple delivers chickens by motorcycle in Guangzhou, in the Guangdong province, January 31, 2004. China named four more places, two in Anhui province, one in Guangdong and one in the city of Shangai, where outbreaks of the deadly virus were suspected. click to open |
 | Roadside checkpoing in Erzhou, Hubei province, February 1, 2004. China named two new areas in the provinces of Hubei and Guangdong as sites of suspected cases of bird flu. click to open |
 | Bird flu in Mainland China: Ducks are delivered to a restaurant in Wuhan, Hubei province, February 1, 2004. China named two new areas in the provinces of Hubei and Guangdong as sites of suspected cases of bird flu. click to open |
 | Bird flu in Mainland China: Chinese policemen gesture to a truck carrying poultry to stop for inspection before entering Wuhan, Hubei province, January 31, 2004. Local authorities have tightened up measures to stop the spread of bird flu virus after China named two new areas in the provinces of Hubei and Guangdong as sites of suspected cases of bird flu. click to open |
 | Bird flu in Mainland China: A quarantine inspector checks a chicken at a village near Wuhan, Hubei province, January 30, 2004. China said tests confirmed bird flu virus H5N1 had got into chickens in Hubei and Hunan provinces and the southern region of Guangxi. click to open |
 | A vendor holds a chicken at a market in China's southern Guangxi province on Jan 31st 2004. The World Health Organisation (WHO) urged China to swiftly contain the spread of bird flu after four new suspected outbreaks of the deadly virus. click to open |
 | A man reaches into a pen to catch a chicken at a market in Beijing Wednesday Jan. 28, 2004. China said Wednesday it had slaughtered nearly 60,000 chickens in a campaign against bird flu, trying to assure the public the disease was under control a day after the country's first cases were confirmed in ducks. click to open |
 | Chinese vendors sell chickens at a market in Yangshuo, Guangxi Autonomous Region, southwest China, January 27, 2004. China has begun the slaughter of poultry near three far-flung farms in Guangxi, Hunan and Hubei to halt the spread of a deadly bird flu virus, a day after a discovering an outbreak near its border with Vietnam. click to open |
 | A farmer checks his chicks at a chicken farm in Dongguan, southern China, for symptoms of bird flu January 28, 2004. The 10 Asian countries hit by the rapid spread of bird flu that has killed at least eight people and threatens to develop into an epidemic worse than SARS. click to open |
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