"He said the strain found in Uthai Thani, however, was only identified as H5 virus and would take 1 - 2 days to confirm. He added that a poultry transport ban had already been imposed there".
Jumat, 14 2008 00:03 WIB
14.24 WIB Bangkok, Thailand
The SENIOR OFFICIAL in the ministry of Thai agriculture, yesterday, confirmed the news has the discovery came back of the case of bird flu, that the two weeks, in the Uthai Thani District, 200 km north Bangkok. "We destroyed all the chickens in the region that it was suspected after the laboratory test confirmed that a collection nonpedigreed chickens belonging to the farmer's family died because of the virus H5N1," said the official who was not acknowledged as his name. This was the fourth case from the deadly virus was found in Thailand in 10 months. On Tuesday (11/11), Agriculture Minister Somsak Prisnanantakul said the bird flu virus was found in Sukhothai, 400 km north Bangkok. More than 200 chickens were destroyed. Gotten by four cases of bird flu in Thailand last year.
However, did not yet have the report on the resident who was infected in the country since September 2006. The virus H5N1 killed 17 people in Thailand since 2003. Then 245 Thai residents were it was reported infected by the virus according to the Kesehatan Body data of the WHO World.
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