Chien-min Chung for TIME


Bird Flu, Part II
A facemasked worker unloads caged (and uncaged) poultry from the back of a truck in a Guangzhou food market. The H5N1 virus which struck southern China in 1997 is believed to have originated in birds. Could SARS have done the same?
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