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 | A Chinese slaughterhouse worker wearing a protective mask, gloves and outfits prepare to slaughter chickens at a poultry wholesale market in a Beijing suburb Saturday, Oct. 29, 2005. Poultry sales in Beijing and Shanghai have plummeted by up to 80 percent amid rising public anxiety after three bird flu outbreaks in Chinese flocks, a newspaper reported Saturday. The government has tried to reassure the Chinese public that it can stop the disease. China has reported no human cases, but health officials warned Friday that one was inevitable unless China prevented future outbreaks in birds. click to open  |  | A Chinese slaughterhouse worker at a poultry wholesale market hoses down chicken cages in a Beijing suburb Saturday, Oct. 29, 2005. Poultry sales in Beijing and Shanghai have plummeted by up to 80 percent amid rising public anxiety after three bird flu outbreaks in Chinese flocks, a newspaper reported Saturday. The government has tried to reassure the Chinese public that it can stop the disease. China has reported no human cases, but health officials warned Friday that one was inevitable unless China prevented future outbreaks in birds. click to open |  | A government official walks past a chicken stall at a live bird market in 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 |  | Egg laying chickens feed inside their cages 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 |  | 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 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 |
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