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Geese at a farm in northern Taoyuan in 2015 in a period when Taiwan slaughtered nearly 6,000 geese. AFP PHOTO
Feb 17,2017, 4:17
Deadly H5N6 sees Taiwan cull 130,000 birds
By Reuters
This February 12, 2017 photo shows an H7N9 bird flu patient being treated in a hospital in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province. AFP
Feb 17,2017, 4:02
China shuts poultry markets as bird-flu deaths rise
By Agence France-Presse
Breeders of the French farmers union demonstrate with a placard reading 'Let me live on my farm, I got infected on a truck' in Toulouse, southwestern France in February 2017. AFP PHOTO
Feb 17,2017, 3:52
Virulent bird flu strain spreads across Europe
By Agence France-Presse
Quarantine officials in protective gears head to a poultry farm in Kawaminami, Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan to bury chickens culled after a highly virulent strain of bird flu was detected this week. Photo: Reuters
Feb 15,2017, 12:53
China death toll from bird flu soars to 79 in January
By South China Morning Post
Quarantine officials in protective gears head to a poultry farm in Kawaminami, Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan to bury chickens culled after a highly virulent strain of bird flu was detected this week. Photo: Reuters
Dec 23,2016, 4:50
China reports first human deaths from bird flu this winter
By Reuters
Women wear face masks on a street in Shanghai on April 16, 2013 as China's H7N9 bird flu virus spreads further afield. In total nationwide 62 people have been infected and 14 have died of the disease since Chinese authorities announced two weeks ago they had found H7N9 in humans for the first time. Photo: AFP/Peter Parks
Dec 20,2016, 2:37
HK reports its first case of human bird flu this winter
By Danny Mok, South China Morning Post
Who sneezed? Photo: KARL-JOSEF HILDENBRAND / DPA
Dec 20,2016, 9:35
Japan starts culling chickens after virulent bird flu outbreak
By Kyodo News
A chicken for sale in the market. Photo: iStock/Getty Images
Nov 18,2016, 11:00
South Korea confirms highly pathogenic bird flu outbreaks
By Reuters
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