Poultry for sale, Long Bien Market, Hanoi, Vietnam. Staff from the department of health test birds and products for bird flu.

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Avian influenza has killed 42 people in Vietnam since 2003 Poultry farmers and market workers are particularly at risk Live poultry markets help spread the disease as birds are brought into the cities where they contract the virus and unsold birds are taken back to the countryside

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