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Bangladesh slaughters chickens after first bird flu outbreak
AFP   Saturday, 24 March 2007

A hen vendor waits for customers on the road-side in Dhaka in 2005. Authorities in Bangladesh said Friday they had slaughtered tens of thousands of chickens at farms on the outskirts of Dhaka where the country's first case of bird flu was confirmed.(AFP/File/Farjana K Godhuly)AFP - Authorities in Bangladesh said Friday they had slaughtered tens of thousands of chickens at farms on the outskirts of Dhaka where the country's first case of bird flu was confirmed.


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