Waitresses wait for customers at a Zhengding Chicken restaurant chain store on Yongjia Road yesterday. The bird flu outbreak has affected the business of local chicken restaurants. -Wang Rongjiang
A measure to prevent the spread of bird flu, the local municipal government issued a decree last night, banning the wholesaling and retailing of live poultry at local markets.
A staff member of Shanghai Epidemic-Prevention Centre collects the blood sample of a worker at the site where suspected cases of birdflu were found in Nanhui District of Shanghai Jan. 31, 2004. -Xinhua
