Sick birds allegedly sold ahead of H5N1 purge

[Ronan Kelly]

Sick birds allegedly sold ahead of H5N1 purge .
Monday, 07 November 2011 12:02 Phak Seangly . The owner of a poultry farm in Battambang is denying allegations that he tried to keep an outbreak of bird flu at his farm secret, and that he sold hundreds of sick or dead birds for consumption in the provincial capital before the H5N1 outbreak was detected.

Sar Ratha, owner of the poultry farm in Banan district?s Ta Kream commune, said the birds were too young to sell. ?They were just chicks, about one month old,? he told the Post yesterday. ?We did not sell them to people to eat.?

The allegations were made by a Ta Kream commune councillor who requested anonymity. He alleged that Sar Ratha tried to keep the outbreak secret and said that hundreds of dead and sick chickens were secretly transported at night to Battambang town before animal health officials visited the farm.

?Only 4,158 birds were incinerated on Friday, and 1,500 birds died before then. They were sold in Battambang town at night,? he said, adding he had received this information from employees of the poultry farm.

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http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index....birds-allegedly-sold-ahead-of-h5n1-purge.html

 

[Giuseppe]

Re: Sick birds allegedly sold ahead of H5N1 purge

Cambodia sent to OIE a report about one new H5N1 poultry outbreak: http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=176075

 

[Pathfinder]

Re: Sick birds allegedly sold ahead of H5N1 purge

Cambodia announces bird flu outbreaks in Northwestern part

Source: Xinhua
Time: 2011-Nov-4 16:13

PHNOM PENH, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- Avian influenza A (H5N1) virus, or bird flu, has been bursting out in a village in Cambodia's Northwestern part, according to a statement received Friday from the Ministry of Agriculture .

The statement, published on Thursday evening, said the bird flu has occurred in O'Pong Morn village, Ta Kream commune, Ba Nan district, Battambang province, some 291 kilometers Northwestern Cambodia.

Minister of Agriculture Chan Sarun ordered the department of production and veterinary to take veterinary medical measures to contain the outbreaks and to kill all types of poultry in the outbreak area.

"It must be suspension to all trading activities and transports of all types of poultry in the area of 3 kilometers from the diameter of the outbreak point," he said. "The suspension will be in force for at least a month in order to investigate the origin of the bird flu outbreak."

The Bird flu firstly burst out in Cambodia in 2003. So far, 18 persons in Cambodia had infected with the H5N1 virus. Of them, 16 persons were killed, according to the joint statement of the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization.

http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2011-11/04/c_131229895.htm