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Uthai Thani Province
On October 28th, birds began dying in Sukhothai Province in northern Thailand, and subsequent tests showed they died from the H5N1 virus. Earlier this week, dead birds in another district of Sukhothai province also tested positive for the bird flu virus.
Now, authorities are reporting the deaths of birds due to the H5N1 virus in Uthai Thani province.
Thailand has new bird flu case, chickens culled
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand has confirmed another bird flu case, the second this week, in a rural district of Uthai Thani, 200 km north of Bangkok, a senior agriculture official said on Thursday.
"We have killed all the chickens in suspected areas after lab tests confirmed that a small flock of native chickens raised by a farming family died of H5N1," an official at the Agriculture Ministry's department of livestock told Reuters.
It was the fourth case of the deadly virus found in Thailand in 10 months.
On Tuesday Agriculture Minister Somsak Prisnanantakul confirmed the virus had been found in Sukhothai, 400 kms north of Bangkok, and more than 200 chickens were culled.
Thailand, which has been very quick to react to any sign of bird flu over the past few years, has declared that 9 northern provinces are under a special watch for avian flu.
9 northern Thai provinces under special watch for bird flu
www.chinaview.cn
2008-11-13 18:24:44
BANGKOK, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- Thailand's Public Health Ministry on Thursday declared nine northern provinces under a special watch for the deadly avian influenza after the disease was discovered in two districts in the region recently.
Deputy Permanent Secretary for Public Health Dr. Paichai Varachit said the decision to impose the special monitoring was made at a meeting of ministry officials early Thursday.
As cold weather began in most parts of Thailand, health officials on Oct. 28 detected the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in a dead fowl in Thung Salium district of Sukhothai province.
Also, a number of birds were found dead of unknown causes in Nong Chang district of Uthai Thani province recently.
Every hospital in the nine provinces are also instructed to provide treatment speedily to patients suspected to have contracted avian influenza or live in areas where birds died for unknown causes without waiting for laboratory tests, said Dr. Paichit.
