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abbie
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Posted: July 03 2006 at 2:45pm |
BIRD FLU SCARE
Girl taken to hospital A seven-year-old girl with a high fever yesterday was taken to a hospital in Phichit for blood tests for avian flu infection. More than 2,000 poultry have died in four tambons in Wang Sai Phun district in the past few days. The district has been declared as an animal disease infection area. Local livestock officials warned local residents not to eat the meat of poultry that died suddenly. They were running laboratory tests on samples from the dead poultry. The girl, who is from tambon Nong Son, was being treated at Sam Ngam Hospital. She had contact with dead chickens before developing flu-like symtoms. Her blood samples were sent to Region 9 Medical Science Centre in Phitsanulok province for examination. Pracha Aswametha, a livestock officer, said initially he suspected E. coli infection was the cause of the mass poultry death. |
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Jhetta
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Thanks Abbie do you have a link... is this in Northern Thailand?
Map of Thailand highlighting the Phichit province Map of the province Phichit with the districts (Amphoe, อำเภอ) numbered.
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http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/04Jul2006_news09.php
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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.
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Ironic isn't it that those who help us understand... are most often those who put themselves at greatest risk!
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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 |
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Thanks Abbie... you have really been great in finding this info!
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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 |
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Too early didn't mean to post that twice.
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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) http://etna.mcot.net/query.php?nid=23073 |
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That's just what we need right now. More stupidity eating poultry that is contaminated. Even if it's cooked well, you still have to handle it for preparation. That's where the possible real problem is in this case.
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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.
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