Jan 8, 2004 - Vietnam says bird flu found on its poultry farms.

Jan 13 - World Health Organisation confirms the deaths of three people in Vietnam are linked to bird flu.

Jan 25 - Indonesia discovers an outbreak among chickens.

Jan 26 - Thailand confirms the death of a six-year-old boy, its first human death from bird flu.

Feb 12 - The World Health Organisation says tests confirm there is no evidence bird flu is passing from person to person.

March 16 - China declares it has stamped out the disease.

May 26 - Thailand reports a fresh case of bird flu in several dead chickens on a university research farm.

Aug 19 - Malaysia says a strain of bird flu has been found in two chickens that died near the Thai border, its first cases.

Sept 27 - Thailand says it has found a case where one human probably infected another with bird flu. It said this was an isolated incident that posed little risk to the population.

Dec 15 - Taiwan says it has discovered two strains of avian flu in migratory birds in the north of the island, the milder H5N2 strain and the H5N6 strain.

April 5, 2005 - The U.N. says the H7 strain of bird flu, previously undetected in Asia, has been found in North Korea.

July 8 - The Philippines says it has found ducks with bird flu but later says the strain was not highly pathogenic.

July 20 - Indonesia confirms its first deaths from bird flu.

July 26 - Japan says a fresh outbreak of bird flu has been discovered on a chicken farm in east Japan. All outbreaks in the Ibaraki prefecture were confirmed as the weak H5N2 strain.

Aug 10 - The bird flu virus has been found in Tibet, the world animal health body OIE says.

Aug 15 - Russia reports an outbreak of bird flu in the Urals region of Chelyabinsk, the sixth region to be affected.

Aug 23 - An outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu strain in seven villages in Kazakhstan is confirmed as dangerous to humans.

Sept 1 - Vietnam reports one new human death from bird flu, taking its total to 44. 65 people have died in Asia in total, including 12 in Thailand, five in Indonesia, four in Cambodia.

Oct 8 - Turkey reports its first cases of avian flu, and Romania reports suspected avian flu. Both cull birds to prevent the disease from spreading.

Oct 10 - Bosnia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Switzerland announce a ban on poultry imports from Turkey and Romania. The European Commission announces a ban on imports of live birds and feathers from Turkey to the 25-nation EU.

Oct 11 - Georgia bans poultry imports from countries affected by bird flu and Egypt bans the import of live birds.

Oct 13 - A strain of the H5 bird flu virus has been detected in samples from Romanian ducks found in the Danube delta, confirming the virus has arrived in Europe.

-- The European Commission confirms the Romanian findings and immediately says it will ban Romanian imports.

-- The world animal health body says veterinary authorities in Iran have detected a high death rate among wild waterfowl but the cause remains unclear. Iran says there is no evidence so far that bird flu is the cause.

-- The EU confirms Turkey has the type of bird flu dangerous to humans, the avian flu H5N1 high pathogenic virus.

Oct 17 - Greece says bird flu has been detected on the Aegean island Chios, the first case in an EU member state.

Oct 20 - Thailand reports the death of a man from bird flu raising its human toll to 13. According to WHO this brings the total throughout Asia to 61, comprising 41 in Vietnam, 13 in Thailand, 3 in Indonesia and 4 in Cambodia.

-- Taiwan says it has found birds infected with the H5N1 flu in a container smuggled from China - its first case since 2003.

-- Vietnam reports its first outbreak of the H5N1 strain in poultry - in the Mekong Delta - since July.

Oct 21 - Hungary says that a vaccine against the deadly strain of bird flu has proved to be effective, final results from tests on humans showed.

-- Britain says a parrot that died in quarantine had contracted bird flu.

-- Scientists detect the H5 avian flu virus in wild swans found dead in eastern Croatia.

Oct 23 - Sweden says that a duck found dead west of Stockholm has tested positive for the mild type of the H5 virus.

Oct 30 - Turkey ends its quarantine of an area in northwest Turkey near the Aegean Sea where the outbreak of bird flu was identified three weeks ago. No other incidence has been recorded in any other part of the country since then.

Nov 4 - China reports its fourth outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in a month after nearly 9,000 chickens died in Liaoning province.

Nov 5 - Indonesia reports the death of a woman from bird flu which, according to the World Health Organisation, brings the human death toll throughout Asia to 63, comprising 41 in Vietnam, 13 in Thailand, five in Indonesia and four in Cambodia.

Nov 6 - All poultry in a northeastern part of China hit by the country's latest bird flu outbreak were expected to be culled by Sunday, state media said.

Some 1,700 officials, backed by armed police, had been sent to the affected county in Liaoning province to slaughter the birds, the official Xinhua news agency said.

Nov 7 - Officials from more than 100 countries start a three-day meeting at the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva to firm up plans to halt the spread of bird flu.

Nov 8 - Vietnam announces that bird flu has killed a man, the country's 42nd victim. The virus has now killed 64 people in Asia, 42 of them in Vietnam, 13 in Thailand, five in Indonesia -- where a sixth is suspected -- and four in Cambodia.

Nov 9 - Three days of talks among health experts agree a billion dollar strategy to minimise the virus threat at source in animals and humans.

Nov 11 - Kuwait reports the first known case of deadly bird flu in the Gulf Arab region, saying a culled flamingo was carrying the deadly strain of the H5N1 virus.

Nov 15 - Britain says 53 finch-like mesias imported from Taiwan died last month in a British quarantine centre where they were believed to have introduced the H5N1 virus. In October, Britain had said a parrot imported from Suriname had been found to have the virus and a mesia may have caught it.

Nov 16 - China reports three cases of human bird flu, its first ever.

Dec 3 - Ukraine introduces tough steps to combat its first outbreak of bird flu, sending troops to patrol exclusion zones in the Crimea peninsula where the virus was detected.

Dec 3 - Indonesia suffers its eighth human death due to bird flu confirmed by a Hong Kong laboratory affiliated with the WHO. This brings the confirmed human death toll throughout Asia to 69, comprising 42 in Vietnam, 13 in Thailand, eight in Indonesia, four in Cambodia and two in China.

Dec 9 - Thailand says bird flu has killed a 5-year-old boy. That brings the death toll in Asia to 70, comprising 14 victims in Thailand, four in Cambodia, eight in Indonesia, 42 in Vietnam and two in China.

Jan 6, 2006 - Turkey says a third child from the family dies of bird flu in the east of the country. The WHO has yet to confirm the case.

Jan 10 - Turkey confirms its 15th human case of H5N1 bird flu.

Jan 14 - A laboratory in Hong Kong confirms Indonesia's 12th human death from bird flu, bringing the world total of confirmed bird flu deaths to 79, according to figures on the WHO Web site.

There have been 77 deaths in east Asia: four in Cambodia, 12 in Indonesia, 14 in Thailand, 42 in Vietnam and five in China. Two people have also been confirmed to have died from it in Turkey.

Jan 18 - International donors pledge $1.9 billion to combat the spread of bird flu at the end of a conference in Beijing.

Feb 8 - The first African cases of the deadly H5N1 strain are detected in poultry in the northern Nigerian states of Kano, Kaduna and Plateau.

Feb 11/12 - Italy says six wild swans found in Sicily and on the southern mainland have tested positive for H5N1. In Greece, three swans found south of Thessaloniki test positive for H5N1. These are the first known cases of the deadly strain in the EU.

Feb 14 - Iran and Austria report cases of H5N1.

Feb 15 - Germany confirms two dead swans found on the Baltic island of Ruegen were infected with H5N1. More than 100 wild birds have since tested positive for H5N1.

Feb 17 - Egypt finds its first cases of H5N1 in chickens.

Feb 18 - India announces its first cases of H5N1, finding the virus in poultry in a western state.

Feb 22 - The EU approves plans by France and the Netherlands to vaccinate millions of hens, ducks and geese against bird flu.

Feb 25 - France confirms H5N1 at a farm in the east where thousands of turkeys have died. It is the first case of the virus in domestic farm birds in the EU.

Feb 27 - Domestic ducks from Niger test positive for H5N1.

March 6 - Poland confirms two dead swans had H5N1.

March 16 - Afghanistan, Myanmar and Denmark confirm their first cases of H5N1 in birds. The next day Israel confirms its first cases.

March 21 - Pakistan becomes the latest country to confirm bird flu, with H5N1 reported in two poultry flocks at farms in the North West Frontier Province.

March 24 - Jordan confirms H5N1 after at least three dead turkeys at a domestic farm in Ajloun tested positive for the disease.

April 4 - WHO confirms death of a baby in Indonesia. The global toll stands at 108, with four victims in Turkey, 23 in Indonesia, five in Cambodia, 11 in China, 14 in Thailand, 42 in Vietnam, two in Iraq, five in Azerbaijan and two in Egypt.

-- Burkina Faso detects H5N1 in poultry near its capital Ouagadougou, making it the fifth African nation to report the disease after Nigeria, Niger, Egypt and Cameroon.