Plagued by the Epidemic

Avian flu victims are not only chickens and their breeders. Other industries will also be affected.

February 3, 2004

NYOMAN Muliartha has bred chickens for 16 years. But only now is the 39-year-old forced to do something he never imagined before. Every morning, starting end-December, he has had to stuff dozens of chicken carcasses into sacks.

After filling the sacks, he takes a rest with his two farmhands for a while. In the afternoon, he has to do the same thing again. This time, he has to cram the remains of chickens that perish around noon. By dusk, the thre

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