Timeline: Bird flu crisis unfolds
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Bangkok has promised swift action in a country already culling millions of chickens and disinfecting farms.
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Nations hit by bird flu
S. Korea
Japan
Thailand
Vietnam
Cambodia
Indonesia
Suspected bird flu
Laos
Taiwan (different strain)
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(CNN) -- Since South Korea confirmed a bird flu outbreak in December, authorities have been scrambling to crack down on a disease which has already resulted in human deaths and is ravaging chicken farms in Asia.
In little over a month, avian influenza has been confirmed in nine nations, prompting the World Health Organization to declare it could be more potentially dangerous than SARS, which swept through Asia last year.
Following is a timeline detailing how the crisis unfolded.
2003
15 December 2003
• S Korea confirms bird flu outbreak
2004
9 January
• The United Nations sends help to Vietnam after bird flu outbreak
11 January
• First of six Vietnamese deaths confirmed from bird flu
12 January
• Japan confirms bird flu outbreak
15 January
• Taiwan reports different strain of bird flu
21 January
• Laos reports suspected chicken cholera
• Vietnam says 900,000 chickens possibly exposed to virus sold to public
23 January
• Thailand confirms first human cases of bird flu
• Cambodia confirms bird flu in chickens
25 January
• Indonesia confirms it has been hit by the disease
• Thai PM admits his government suspected a bird flu outbreak for weeks
• China bans poultry from Thailand and Cambodia, joining the EU and Japan
26 January
• Thailand announces first human death from bird flu
• Pakistan reports it has bird flu
27 January
• Laos confirms it has bird flu
