Experts ponder bird flu's disappearance
(AP)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061210/ap_on_he_me/bird_flu"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061206/capt.24b639862cdb49b6a0589733e0a3ee52.mali_bird_flu_mli101.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=w3qfM6cEgqt4QGq2lrhAdA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Women clean chickens to prepare them for a local hotel, in an outdoor market in Bamako, Mali Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006. Bird flu experts from across the globe are gathering Wednesday in this West African nation to mobilize support, with an estimated US$1.5 billion (euro 1.1 billion) funding needed over the next several years to fight a deadly strain of bird flu experts fear could start a human pandemic, the World Bank says. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)" border="0" /></a>AP - Earlier this year, bird flu panic was in full swing: The French feared for their foie gras, the Swiss locked their chickens indoors, and Americans enlisted prison inmates in Alaska to help spot infected wild birds.</p><br clear="all"/>