Health worker carry a bag of dead birds during a cull during a cull after an outbreak of bird flu at Bagtya Village in Hajo District some 35 kms from Guwahati on Friday, 28 November 2008. Authorities in India"s northeastern state of Assam have ordered the culling thousands of chicken and ducks after a fresh outbreak of bird flu in poultry was detected late on November 27, a senior health official said. More than 30,000 chickens and ducks would be slaughtered in next three days in 20 villages, after one of them was hit by bird flu, officials said.

Photographer: Ujjal Deb

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