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Voodoo practitioners celebrate Voodoo day at Porto Novo in Benin
10 Jan 2008
Source: Reuters
 
Voodoo practitioners celebrate Voodoo day in Porto Novo, Benin January 10, 2008. Sacrificing chickens in a spray of blood, Benin's traditional priests celebrated Voodoo Day on Thursday and declared their ancient religion would protect them from risk of infection by the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus. REUTERS/Charles Tossou (BENIN)
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Health workers collect chickens from a poultry farm in the Nimra village, about 240 km (149 miles) north of the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, January 23, 2008.The communist government of ...


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