US Sounds Bird Flu Alarm

World | February 10, 2004, Tuesday // 00:00

US formally sounded the alarm over its own outbreak of bird flu, the disease that has killed 19 people in Asia, as the World Health Organization (WHO) warned of possible human infections in China. Vietnam, meanwhile, said that it was gradually bringing the epidemic under control and had reversed an earlier order for all birds to be culled within a three-kilometre radius of where the disease was detected.

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