Public health officials in provinces bordering Cambodia, Sa Kaeo in particular, have been placed on alert for the possible spread of bird flu, after the Cambodian Public Health Ministry reported seven cases of H5N1 in the country. Thai People Told Not to Panic about Bird Flu Thai Public Health Permanent Secretary Dr. Opart Karnkawinpong said […]
BANKGOK, Feb 28 (TNA) – The Department of Health asks people not to panic about bird flu after an 11-year-old girl in Cambodia died from H5N1, the country’s first known human case in nine years. The director – general of the Health Department, Suwanchai Wattanayingcharoenchai said that the girl’s father was infected with the virus […]
The father of an 11-year-old girl who died of the disease on Wednesday tested positive, the Cambodian Ministry of Health said.
BANGKOK (NNT) – An 11-year-old girl has died of bird flu in eastern Cambodia, prompting a call for increased disease monitoring by government health agencies. In response to the incident, Dr. Anan Jongkaewwattana, a virologist at the National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, urged the government, through a Facebook post, to increase its monitoring […]
BANGKOK, Jan 17 (TNA) – The chief of the Department of Livestock Development ordered his officials nationwide to be on alert to prevent the outbreak of avian influenza. Sorawit Thaneeto, director-general of the department, made the order after the World Health Organization had reported that the H5N6 avian influenza erupted in China where five people […]
BANGKOK (NNT) – Following a report from China that a woman died from the H5N6 strain of avian influenza last month, the Department of Livestock Development is on high alert to prevent the spread of the virus into the country. Livestock Development Department director-general Sorravis Thaneto said the Chinese government has announced that a 54-year-old […]
TOKYO (Sputnik) – Some 410,000 chickens will be culled in the Japanese prefecture of Chiba near Tokyo over a new outbreak of the highly pathogenic bird flu, Japanese media reported on Saturday. According to the NHK broadcaster, the sixth outbreak of the bird flu was detected in the prefecture on Saturday morning. The authorities in […]
BRUSSELS (Sputnik) – The H5N5 bird flu has been found in the Menen municipality of Belgium’s province of West Flanders, Belgian media reported. According to the Sudinfo media outlet, all domestic birds at the farm hit by the outbreak will be culled. There is also a threat of the spread of the outbreak to neighbouring […]
