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Ducklings are huddled in a pen at Chateau Interfarm in Kanchanaburi province, 110 kilometers (68 miles) west of Bangkok, Thailand, Feb. 6, 2002. The number of wild birds found infected with H5N1 bird flu in Germany is approaching 200, authorities said Monday, March 13, 2006, after the confirmation of several new cases. A federal laboratory was also carrying out tests on six ducklings found dead at a farm in Bavaria amid fears that the virus could have reached farm birds in the country for the first time. About 400 domestic birds were culled at the farm as a precaution.(KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)