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Health workers pack chicken at a wholesale poultry market in Hong Kong
10 Dec 2008
Source: Reuters
 
Health workers pack chicken at a wholesale poultry market in Hong Kong December 10, 2008. Health workers clad in masks began culling thousands of chickens at a marketplace in Hong Kong on Wednesday, a day after authorities raised the bird flu alert level to "serious" following an outbreak at a farm. REUTERS/Woody Wu (CHINA)
REUTERS/WOODY WU


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A health worker culls poultry at Doibakipur village, about 347 km (215 miles) north of the eastern Indian city of Kolkata December 17, 2008. Efforts by state authorities in east India ...




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