THE government policy of banning poultry in residential areas does not please Chairil Anwar Nidom. This researcher of the Avian Influenza (AI) Laboratory Tropical Disease Center, Airlangga University, Surabaya, doubts whether this effort will be able to cut off the chain link for the transmission of the deadly virus. This method can only reduce the amount of the virus, not stop its spread, he said.

In his laboratory Nidom is familiar with the dead