CIKELET valley is now the focus of bird flu experts. The valley is in an isolated area of Garut district, West Java. A mass prevention approach is being applied in this area, the first mass effort against bird flu which has ever been applied in the world.

Lets meet Ibu Ellis, 26. She is one of the 2,903 people who live in five kampungs in Kecamatan Cikelet. When we met her she was queuing in front of the Avian Flu Eradication Post in her kampung,