Flu education in Bangladesh

Via The New Nation: How to protect women and children from bird flu. Excerpt:

Women and children, who are vulnerable to bird flu, should be protected from the disease. Children who play with dead birds or fowls can be affected.

The issue of protecting women and children demand attention as they face risk because they have to touch, deal or use poultry birds, other birds and eggs.

Bird flu - avian influenza - is caused by a virus that mainly affects wild and domestic birds (particularly domestic poultry and waterfowl such as chicken and ducks). It can spread rapidly between birds causing sickness and high death rates, especially in poultry farms and live bird markets where birds are kept close together.

Anyone can be affected if they slaughter the affected birds or touch it while separating its feathers.

I hope similar articles are available in all local languages, and that the advice also goes out over radio and TV. The number of English-speaking Bangladeshi web surfers is likely to be low. And this kind of patient, repetitive information is essential if people in hot-zone countries are going to understand what's happening in their backyards and markets.