Asia copes with flu spread
January 31st, 2008
Indonesia recorded its 101st human bird flu death on Wednesday, the last in a series of events that marks the spread of the disease through the Asian continent. The latest victim is a 32-year-old man whose source of infection is not yet known.
Tibet is facing its own virus problem, as a poultry farm was shut down and quarantined, following an outbreak of the virus which killed 1,000 birds. Another 13,000 poultry were culled in an attempt to stop the spreading of the highly contagious virus.
India, meanwhile, reports the spreading of the H5N1 bird flu virus to three district of the West Bengal state, where a massive poultry culling campaign has been initiated, leading to the killing of more than 129,000 birds. The good news so far is that no cases of human infection have been reported yet.