A local farmer tending to his ducks that are well protected by a net covering to avoid contact from outside birds that may be infected with the avian flu virus. 

A local farmer tending to his ducks that are well protected by a net covering to avoid contact from outside birds that may be infected with the avian flu virus. 

Ducks at a well protected farm covered by a net to avoid contact from outside birds that may be infected with the avian flu virus. 

Ducks swimming at a well protected farm with a net covering to avoid contact from outside birds that may be infected with the avian flu virus. 

A chicken farm worker carrying collecting eggs from the layer hen barn. This is a well protected farm covered by a net to avoid contact from outside birds that may be infected with the avian flu virus 

Lab technicians preparing serum samples from chickens infected with the avian flu virus at a laboratory in Bangkok. 

THAILAND 2005 Lab technicians testing serum samples from chickens infected with the avian flu virus at a laboratory in Bangkok. 

A lab technician testing serum samples from chickens infected with the avian flu virus at a laboratory in Bangkok. 

A lab technician taking samples from eggs to test for strains of the avian flu virus at a laboratory in Bangkok. 

A lab technician writing a reference number on an egg being tested for strains of the avian flu virus at a laboratory in Bangkok. 

A farmer tending to his ducks. This farmer's livestock is free of the Avian Flu Virus. 

A farmer tending to his ducks. This farmer's livestock is free of the Avian Flu Virus. 

A farmer tending a bonfire where some 6, 400 chickens infected with the Avian Flu Virus are being incinerated on a private poultry farm. 

Farmers tending a bonfire where some 6, 400 chickens infected with the Avian Flu Virus are being incinerated on a private poultry farm. 

A group of farmers tending a bonfire where some 6, 400 chickens infected with the Avian Flu Virus are being incinerated on a private poultry farm. 

A farmer tending a bonfire where some 6, 400 chickens infected with the Avian Flu Virus are being incinerated on a private poultry farm. 

Farmers watching and tending to a bonfire where some 6, 400 chickens infected with the Avian Flu Virus are being incinerated on a private poultry farm. 

Farmers watching and tending to a bonfire where some 6, 400 chickens infected with the Avian Flu Virus are being incinerated on a private poultry farm. 

To avoid being checked for avian flu by the authorities in Long An Province, poultry farmers and vendors hide live ducks in a cargo hold of a bus and transport them undetected to market. 

A farmer tending to a bonfire where some 6, 400 chickens infected with the Avian Flu Virus are being incinerated on a private poultry farm.