 | Chinese women buy chicken and ducks at a poultry market in Hefei, China's Anhui province November 30, 2005. China's health minister defended the government on Wednesday against accusations of a cover-up of bird flu cases, saying doctors in rural areas might be too ill-equipped and ill-trained even to detect avian flu infections. click to open  |
 | A Chinese roast duck vendor waits for customers at a poultry market in Hefei, China's Anhui province November 30, 2005. China's health minister defended the government on Wednesday against accusations of a cover-up of bird flu cases, saying doctors in rural areas might be too ill-equipped and ill-trained even to detect avian flu infections. click to open |
 | A man rides past as health workers disinfect a rural area quarantined by a police cordon in Fumin Township of Chuxiong City, southwest China Yunnan Province November 25, 2005. China's home-grown human bird flu vaccine is at least a year away from hitting the market but clinical tests on people have been approved by the government, head of the research drug company said on Friday. click to open |
 | Health workers disinfect a bicycle at a rural area quarantined by a police cordon in Fumin Township of Chuxiong City, southwest China Yunnan province November 25, 2005. China's home-grown human bird flu vaccine is at least a year away from hitting the market but clinical tests on people have been approved by the government, head of the research drug company said on Friday. click to open |
 | Chinese health workers disinfect vehicles against bird flu in a poultry market in Qionghai City, south China's Hainan province November 19, 2005. China reported on Sunday two new outbreaks of bird flu in which almost 3,700 poultry died and more than 7,000 were culled as provinces hit by the deadly virus tightened preventive measures. click to open |
 | A Chinese vendor collects chickens at a poultry market in Xiangfan, middle China Hubei province, November 15, 2005. An outbreak of bird flu has been reported in China's remote western province of Xinjiang where authorities have culled more than 200,000 birds, a Hong Kong newspaper reported. click to open |
 | Soldiers from the Chinese People's Armed Police Forces help cull chickens in Northeast China's Liaoning Province, which had an outbreak of bird flu in Heishan County November 5, 2005. China has culled 6 million birds in a northeastern region of China hit by the country's fourth outbreak of avian flu in a month, state media said on Monday. Picture taken November 5, 2005. click to open |
 | A little girl, right, peers at a man dressed in a protective suit a couple of hundred meters away from the farm in the northern grasslands of the Inner Mongolia region that suffered the first of three outbreaks of bird flu reported over the past month in China, in Tengjiaying, Thursday Nov. 3, 2005. click to open |
 | Poultry farm workers spray disinfectant onto chickens in their cages, in Haian, Jiangsu province in eastern China. Critics say the central Chinese government should set aside a budget to compensate chicken farmers and to minimise their losses in order to prevent sick birds from entering the black market and spreading the disease to humans. click to open |
 | Chinese health workers and officials stand at a prevention of animal epidemic, disinfection and inspection check point near the farm in the northern grasslands of the Inner Mongolia region that suffered the first of three outbreaks of bird flu reported over the past month in China, in Tengjiaying, Thursday Nov. 3, 2005. The click to open |
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