Health Offices across Thailand Stepup Bird Flu Monitorings
Health offices in several provinces have started spraying anti-bird flu disinfectant and cleaning up areas suspected to be at risk of contracting bird flu while campaigning for more public awareness about the danger of the H5N1 virus.
Sukhothai Governor Yothin Samutkheeree has chaired a meeting on a special campaign aimed to promote the clean-up and the disinfection of bird-flu virus in all risk areas. The campaign followed hot on the heel of an order from the Livestock Department for all the provinces to safeguard its residents and fowls from from H5N1.
Yothin added that officials have already set up checkpoints to control the transport of fowls and issued a ban on cock fight matches across the province.
He is assuring residents of Sukhothai that the bird-flu situation is now under total control.
In northeastern Mukdahan, Livestock Department officials are closely monitoring the situation and are on a lookout for any new outbreak of bird flu.
They have also collaborated with local health volunteers to educate the public about the deadly virus and set up checkpoints along the routes that connects Mukdahan with adjacent provinces, to control the movement of fowls.
Mukdahan authorities are asking locals to immediately report any suspicious and sudden deaths of fowls, and not to touch or consume the fowls suspected to be infected with H5N1.
Meanwhile, in Nakhon Sawan Province, Livestock Department officials also inspected a pig farm in Muang District, after all the pigs at the farm died suddenly. However, officials believed that all the pigs died from a bacterial infection that usually spreads during the change of seasons.
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