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400 Indonesian students begin house-to-house hunt for bird flu.(NOTEWROTHY NEWS)

From: Diverse Issues in Higher Education  |  Date: 12/1/2005

BOGOR, INDONESIA

At least 400 Indonesian university students are going house-to-house to check for bird flu in chickens that people keep in their backyards, said university officials last month.

The students, from four universities in Java and Bali, are among up to 1,000 veterinary students and other volunteers that the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization says are taking part in a "military-like" door-to-door campaign.

They are looking for infected chickens in the ...

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