Indonesia to Intensify Chicks After Bird Flu Reported 
Indonesia is to carry out extensive checks on farms within a 20-km (12 miles) radius of a house where three people are suspected to have died of bird flu, the agriculture minister said on Monday, July 18, 2005. The H5N1 strain has killed more than 50 people in Asia since 2003. More than 140 million chickens have been culled in the region to halt the disease, causing million of dollars in losses.