BIRD FLU SCARE

Thanks Abbie do you have a link... is this in Northern Thailand?

I have two friends returning from overseas today, one was in Georgia and the other is returning from Thialand, hmmm...it won't be me picking them up from the airport.

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200607/04/print20060704_279955.html

Villagers eat dead poultry, neglecting bird flu caution, in Thailand
Hundreds of domestic poultry died in a village in northern Thailand Phet last week, and villagers cooked and ate them without regard to possible bird flu,local medical officials reported on Tuesday.

Public health officials in the lower northern province of Phichit have renewed precautionary measures against avian flu after hundreds of chickens died from unknown causes.

After visiting Mabkrapao village in Sam Ngam district, Dr. Prachak Wattanakun, a provincial health official, said that hundreds of local poultry had died suspiciously, and that villagers had eaten them while disregarding the potential of avian flu.

Local health officials warned villagers not to eat sick chickens and advised them to use rubber gloves when handling the poultry, dead or alive, to prevent the spread of possible bird flu virus and contracting the disease.

Samples of the dead poultry were sent for laboratory testing, but the results are not yet available, he said.

Anyway, the incident raises questions regarding the effectiveness of the government's anti-bird flu education among rural farm families, observers was quoted by the Thai News Agency as saying.

Last year, bird flu was detected at the village,which straddles the shared border of Phichit and Kamphaeng Phet provinces.

Source: Xinhua

Villagers eat dead poultry, neglecting bird flu caution, in Thailand
Hundreds of domestic poultry died in a village in northern Thailand Phet last week, and villagers cooked and ate them without regard to possible bird flu,local medical officials reported on Tuesday.

Public health officials in the lower northern province of Phichit have renewed precautionary measures against avian flu after hundreds of chickens died from unknown causes.

After visiting Mabkrapao village in Sam Ngam district, Dr. Prachak Wattanakun, a provincial health official, said that hundreds of local poultry had died suspiciously, and that villagers had eaten them while disregarding the potential of avian flu.

Local health officials warned villagers not to eat sick chickens and advised them to use rubber gloves when handling the poultry, dead or alive, to prevent the spread of possible bird flu virus and contracting the disease.

Samples of the dead poultry were sent for laboratory testing, but the results are not yet available, he said.

Anyway, the incident raises questions regarding the effectiveness of the government's anti-bird flu education among rural farm families, observers was quoted by the Thai News Agency as saying.

Last year, bird flu was detected at the village,which straddles the shared border of Phichit and Kamphaeng Phet provinces.

Source: Xinhua
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200607/04/print20060704_279955.html

Lab test shows Phichit girl not infected by avian flu
PHICHIT, July 4 (TNA) - The blood test of a seven-year-old girl with flu symptoms taken to hospital in Phichit showed that she had not caught bird flu, Dr. Prachak Watanakool, head of the Phichit provincial public health office said Tuesday.

The unidentified girl, who lives in Nong-Sano sub-district, was taken Monday to Sam Ngam district Hospital for treatment after developing a high fever and other flu-like symptoms.

She was reported to have had contact with dead chickens before that.

Dr. Prachak said the test results from a sample of her blood undertaken by the Region 9 Medical Science Centre in nearby Phitsanulok province indicated the child had fallen ill with an ordinary flu, not the more worrisome bird flu, and she accordingly had been taken out of quarantine.

Provincial public health officials led by Dr. Prachak visited Mab Krapao village in Sano sub-district Tuesday morning following reports of hundreds of poultry there having died in the past few days.

The sub-district has been declared as an animal disease infection area. Officials warned local residents not to eat the meat of poultry that died mysteriously. (TNA)-E009




Last Update : 2006-07-04 / 14:46:21 (GMT+7:00)

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Just when they were getting pats on the back from the WHO that things were under control and there were no more outbreaks in Thailand.  This virus is making a mockery of us.