Avian Flu Hits Thailand

BANGKOK, THAILAND - JANUARY 29: A full page advertisement in a local newspaper from a Chicken processing plant shows a healthy chicken as children wait to get examined at the Out Patient clinic at the Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health January 29, 2004 in Bangkok, Thailand. The staff at the hospital is caring for a boy in serious condition with H5N1, or Avian Flu, and several people in Thailand have been sickened by the disease. The flu is contracted by exposure to poultry, and hasnÕt spread from human-to-human. The disease has caused governments in seven countries to destroy millions of chicken and ducks in infected areas and has devastated the Thai $1.5 billion chicken export sector. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)