Re: Thailand confirms new bird flu outbreak
[SIZE=-1]BIRD FLU / NAKHON RATCHASIMA FARM[/SIZE]
Poultry deaths spark H5N1 scare
[SIZE=-1]PRASIT TANGPRASERT
[/SIZE] <!--img--> <!--/img--> <!--AD5 Google--><!--END AD5 Google--> Nakhon Ratchasima _ A bird flu scare has gripped the province after a farmer in Non Thai district reported his chickens and ducks were dying of unknown causes. Koon Pansantia, 71, alerted the provincial livestock office that 20 of his chickens and 10 ducks had died over the past week.
Office chief Somboon Limwattana said carcasses from Mr Koon's farm in tambon Non Thai had been sent for lab tests. Results should be available in a week.
He suspected the birds died of natural causes. But as a precaution, disinfectant was sprayed within a five-kilometre radius of the farm and the farm owner's health would be monitored, he said.
The recent deaths of 35 chickens in tambon Pol Songkram in Non Sung district was caused by cholera, not bird flu.
To prevent the re-emergence of bird flu, officials would ''X-ray'' all areas of the province and make door-to-door visits to check on the condition of poultry.
Disinfectant would be sprayed at all poultry farms, slaughterhouses and at-risk areas where there were large numbers of wild birds that might spread bird flu.
Prawet Suksangpanomrung, chief of the provincial livestock quarantine checkpoint located on the Friendship Highway in Pak Chong district, said poultry-laden trucks passing the checkpoint would be checked and sprayed with disinfectant.
More than 200 trucks travel via the checkpoint daily transporting chickens to slaughterhouses in the province and nearby Saraburi province, he said.
Thailand is in the midst of its fifth bird flu outbreak. The disease re-emerged last week in Nakhon Sawan and Phichit.
Six people from five provinces have been put under surveillance for possible bird flu infection.
The first outbreak struck the country in January 2004. More than 60 million fowls were culled or died. A total of 25 people were infected with the virus and 17 of them died.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/01Feb2008_news14.php
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[SIZE=-1]BIRD FLU / NAKHON RATCHASIMA FARM[/SIZE]
Poultry deaths spark H5N1 scare
[SIZE=-1]PRASIT TANGPRASERT
[/SIZE] <!--img--> <!--/img--> <!--AD5 Google--><!--END AD5 Google--> Nakhon Ratchasima _ A bird flu scare has gripped the province after a farmer in Non Thai district reported his chickens and ducks were dying of unknown causes. Koon Pansantia, 71, alerted the provincial livestock office that 20 of his chickens and 10 ducks had died over the past week.
Office chief Somboon Limwattana said carcasses from Mr Koon's farm in tambon Non Thai had been sent for lab tests. Results should be available in a week.
He suspected the birds died of natural causes. But as a precaution, disinfectant was sprayed within a five-kilometre radius of the farm and the farm owner's health would be monitored, he said.
The recent deaths of 35 chickens in tambon Pol Songkram in Non Sung district was caused by cholera, not bird flu.
To prevent the re-emergence of bird flu, officials would ''X-ray'' all areas of the province and make door-to-door visits to check on the condition of poultry.
Disinfectant would be sprayed at all poultry farms, slaughterhouses and at-risk areas where there were large numbers of wild birds that might spread bird flu.
Prawet Suksangpanomrung, chief of the provincial livestock quarantine checkpoint located on the Friendship Highway in Pak Chong district, said poultry-laden trucks passing the checkpoint would be checked and sprayed with disinfectant.
More than 200 trucks travel via the checkpoint daily transporting chickens to slaughterhouses in the province and nearby Saraburi province, he said.
Thailand is in the midst of its fifth bird flu outbreak. The disease re-emerged last week in Nakhon Sawan and Phichit.
Six people from five provinces have been put under surveillance for possible bird flu infection.
The first outbreak struck the country in January 2004. More than 60 million fowls were culled or died. A total of 25 people were infected with the virus and 17 of them died.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/01Feb2008_news14.php
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