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Authorities in the city of Dawei in southeastern Myanmar’s Tanintharyi region on Thursday ordered all schools closed for five days and more than 20,000 chickens to be culled amid an outbreak of the highly contagious avian influenza. The moves come a day after confirmation from tests on poultry carcasses confirmed that
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Health authorities in the central Chinese province of Hanan on Saturday confirmed a new human case of bird flu. BEIJING (Sputnik) – The 35-year old man from the city of Zhuzhou tested positive for the H7N9 avian influenza, Hanan’s center for disease control and prevention said. The patient is in critical
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The Ministry of Public Health has ordered health officials in Sakaew and Chanthaburi provinces to take precautionary measures in wake of suspected bird flu outbreak in a neighbouring country which has killed many birds. The precautionary measures monitoring of suspected bird flu infection in human beings and coordinating with livestock and
Read More TRANG, 24 April 2014 (NNT) - Medical experts say that H1N1 virus has claimed the lives of 24 people in Thailand since early this year. Director of Trang Hospital Dr. Chaiyuth Saksornchai said that the North is hardest hit by the outbreak. The highest mortality rate was reported among patients in
Read More A total of 35 people - four of whom later died - were diagnosed with seasonal H1N1 flu in Udon Thani province between January 1 and April 21. The four deaths were in Muang, Ban Phue, Si That and Ban Dung districts. Read more: The Nation
Read More BANGKOK, 6 March 2014 (NNT) – The Department of Disease Control indicated on Wednesday that the public should not panic over rumors of mutant strains of bird flu, as no such a strain has been found in Thailand. According to Disease Control Department Director-General Sophon Mekkhathon, there have been no reports
Read More NAKHON SI THAMMARAT, 29 January 2014 (NNT) - The southern office of the Disease Prevention and Control Department confirmed that there have been no reports of outbreaks of the new fatal H7N9 virus from China in Thailand. The office has nonetheless advised poultry farmers to notify the Livestock Development Department of
Read More Caretaker Deputy Prime Minister and Agriculture Minister Yugol Limlaemthong has categorically dismissed as completely groundless a report circulating in the social media about an outbreak of bird flu in Thailand. He said that person or persons who circulated the false report about bird flu in the social media had malicious intention
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