It's avian influenza that brings me to Bangladesh, which means my photos are mostly of live poultry markets -- what we in the biz call "wet markets". But they're the best darn pictures of Bangladeshi wet markets you will see today.
How did I end up with this job?
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| The boq bike: predawn bike commuting is for the birds. |
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| Boq bike, part 2. Note the crows waiting to eat any delicious chickens that may happen to keel over from bird flu, and then excrete virus all over surrounding neighborhoods. |
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| The manager of this particular wet market claimed that 500,000 birds change hands there every day. |
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| Inside the wet market. |
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"Won't the customers be put off by a white guy walking around wearing a respirator?"
"Nah, they're used to it." And they were! |
Labels: Bangladesh, H5N1, virus-pooping carrion eaters
