Bird Flu Reportedly Returns To Thailand
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After a series of outbreaks among poultry during the spring, bird flu news emerging from Thailand has all but stopped these past few months. Of course, in an all too familiar story, the H5N1 virus has a nasty habit of popping back up even after disappearing for months.
This outbreak appears, thankfully, small.
H5N1 found in Thailand's Phichit province
www.chinaview.cn
2007-09-27 17:29:46
BANGKOK, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- Preecha Ruengchan, governor of northern Thailand's province of Phichit, called an urgent meeting with livestock officials on Thursday after birds there were found to have died without cause.
Preecha is considering whether to declare Phichit the bird flu zone, local newspaper Bangkok Post reported.
Thawatpong Paekwamdee, chief of Taphan Hin district of the province, said that test result of carcasses of chickens raised by a villager were found to have the H5N1 virus. The local authorities have killed 90 chickens within 1-km radius from the location.
Transportation of birds is prohibited in the area unless receiving authorization from authorities, who are keeping a close watch on the spread of the virus within 5-km radius.
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