Before future studies would uncover a link between Nipah outbreaks and the felling of native forests for the purposes of fruit plantations, more than 1 million pigs are culled to quell an outbreak that leads to the deaths of 105 people.

For the first time since 1952, publication of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report was halted. It returned on Feb. 6, but without planned bird flu studies.