2000 chickens culled ! (bird flu)

Post by **izzix** » January 21, 2007, 11:22 pm

2,000 bird-flu suspect poultry culled at Lao border

NONG KHAI: -- Thai health officials in this Mekong River province bordering Laos, some 615 kilometres northeast of Bangkok, have culled more than 2,000 poultry suspected to have been stricken with the deadly avian influenza -- bird flu.

A total of 230 chickens at a farm in Si Chiang Mai district of Nong Khai died of unknown causes Saturday, forcing the provincial authorities to later cull some 2,000 chickens at the farm. Another 60 chickens raised by villagers living near the farm were also destroyed.

Nong Khai governor Supot Laowansiri said the change in the weather could be one reason for the chickens at the farm to have died unnaturally.

Governor Supot said lab tests on the dead chickens could be known within three days.

Meanwhile, the Disease Control Department had announced that testing showed that 111 persons suspected to be infected with bird flu, including a duck farmer in Ayutthaya province, were suffering from ordinary fever or pneumonia and not from bird flu.

The tests were carried out during the first three weeks of January, a Public Health Ministry spokesperson said.

--TNA 2007-01-21

Post by **hxjohn** » January 22, 2007, 10:45 am

this news is not good i feel sorry for the farmers its hard work in the poultry buissness at anytime without bird flu waiting to pop its head up
well lets hope they have it under control

Post by **panick** » January 23, 2007, 7:52 am

Is it just me? or has any one else noticed that the KFC customers are getting fewer...maybe it was just the time of day I shopped but it seemed to be emptier everyday

I wouldn't want to be Col.Saunders at the mo

Post by **BKKSTAN** » January 23, 2007, 8:06 am

I don't think there has ever been a case reported from eating chicken!The virus is passed on by the handling of sick fowl!

Post by **panick** » January 23, 2007, 8:18 am

KFC is sick fowl

Seasonings nice though

Post by **beer monkey** » January 23, 2007, 5:31 pm

panik wrote:I wouldn't want to be Col.Saunders at the mo

Neither would I, ....He died in 1980.

that white hair style reminds me of someone on here.

Post by **muscle** » January 23, 2007, 6:38 pm

The UN was to have named an Avian Flu rep for Vientiane and the border area last week. Politics have run wild with that one and it appears that someone who is politcally connected but has no medical experience or public health background has gotten the job.
So many of these NGO medical jobs seem to be going that way. No surprise that nothing gets done up here. This jerk-off will ride around in an air conditioned SUV with a local driver, make PowerPoint presentations to other idiots who have no idea what is discussed, then everyone will eat and drink themselves into oblivion. This individual will have one photo op with a "moon suit" on and that is the last time they ever go near a farm or any farmers. A blanket policy of "destroy all birds" will come down from the Health Organizations with no effort to be made at teaching, research or prevention. Sad, becasue it hurts the small farmers and markets when some assertive teaching and prevention could stem the problem.
It's not what you know; it's who you blow.

Post by **JimboPSM** » January 23, 2007, 10:59 pm

Confirmation of the bird flu outbreak in Nong Khai - from Bangkok Post breaking news today: [quote]Second bird flu outbreak in Nong Khai

(BangkokPost.com, TNA)
Thai livestock officials have confirmed the country

Post by **beer monkey** » January 26, 2007, 6:57 am

Nong Khai man dies of human influenza, not bird flu

Laboratory tests have revealed that the Nong Khai resident feared to have been the latest human victim of bird flu died instead from a strain of human influenza, the Public Health Ministry said Thursday.

Apichart Phrombutr, a 41-year-old resident of the northern province's Si Chiang Mai district - where the latest outbreak of bird flu was confirmed last week - died from the H3N2 strain of human flu, not the H5N1 strain of bird flu, said Dr Paijit Warachit, the chief of the Department of Medical Science.

Apichart died on Monday, just a few days after falling ill with bird-flu-like symptoms. His death sparked public fears and a widespread rumour that bird flu had claimed another Thai .

Apichart's home was very far from the poultry farm where the latest outbreak of bird flu was detected, Paijit said.

He said there had been another case of someone dying from the H3N2 virus recently - a five-year-old girl in Prachuap Khiri Khan province.

Health officials are investigating the two deaths to determine why the virus was so deadly, he said.

The Nation

Post by **Paul** » January 26, 2007, 10:37 am

Its good news for us - but not for the man

Must have been a hell of a cold to die from it .

2000 chickens culled ! (bird flu)

2000 chickens culled ! (bird flu)

not good news