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...INDICTED. HIDEAKI ASADA, 41, president of Asada Nosan, a Japanese poultry producer, on charges of covering up a February outbreak of avian influenza at a company farm; in Kyoto. Prosecutors say Asada failed to warn authorities about the deaths of thousands of birds, and the farm allegedly sent some of the surviving chickens to processing plants. Asada faces up to a year in prison. His father, who was Asada Nosan's chairman, and his mother committed suicide after the outbreak was discovered...
However, just as Dhanin is building anew, he has been confronted with another potentially damaging setback: avian flu, which has devastated the Thai poultry industry over the past several months. As the No. 1 chicken producer in Asia, CP has been swept up in the crisis. Initially, rumors swirled that CP had contributed to the disease's spread in Thailand by trying to hide the outbreak. CP's participation in any cover-up "is just not true,'' says Dhanin. The company's chicken farms are a bulwark against the spread of diseases, he contends, because its birds are kept...
Moreover, Dhanin says CP began warning Thai farmers about the possibility of avian flu in November. That's when company officials showed him a newspaper photo of birds dying in central Thailand. Dhanin says he had no idea it was the deadly H5N1 virus, but he knew he had to act. Orders went out to seal up all of CP's chicken plants by further restricting access to plant premises--even delivery trucks were kept out. On Jan. 23, government officials announced that two young boys had tested positive for avian flu. The next day, CP's stock plummeted...
...little bicycle. Kaptan fell ill a few days after the New Year with a mysterious fever that developed into lung complications. "Mum," he told his mother, "my chest feels like it is going to explode." When he died last week, Kaptan became Thailand's first confirmed victim of avian influenza, the latest scourge to emerge from Asia. Inside the Boonmanuj household, relatives burn incense and quietly weep. Outside, chickens scratch around the yard freely--birds not so different from the ones that made Kaptan sick...
...Memphis, Tenn. "That's a frightening possibility." If H5N1 does evolve into a flu that humans can spread, a vaccine could be developed but would take months. "Once you know this virus can spread from human to human, region to region," says Dr. Yi Guan, a SARS and avian-flu expert at the University of Hong Kong, "it's already too late...