Ang Thong Province - Thailand
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The Bangkok Post is reporting, once again, that more people are being closely watched for fear they may have contracted the H5N1 virus. While these cases may, or may not, end up being bird flu, it gives us a very good read as to how dilligent authorities are being in Thailand in following up cases.
Man, & 12 kids under close watch
BIRD FLU SUSPECTED CASES ON THE RISE - Thailand
Thursday January 25, 2007
Bangkok Post
"Twelve children and a man in Ang Thong and Phichit provinces are under watch for bird flu symptoms after falling ill soon after the suspicious deaths of a large number of chickens in the area. Their condition has worried health officials because they are thought to have been in contact with infected chickens in the aftermath of bird flu outbreaks in Phitsanulok and Nong Khai.
In Ang Thong, two boys and two girls in a village in Sawaengha district were admitted to hospital after they suddenly developed high fever and vomited continuously. Doctors said they needed special care and were being kept under surveillance.
Villagers said the children were seen in contact with the dead chickens before they became ill.
In Phichit, eight students at Ban Nong Nam Kiew school in Sam Ngam district also had high fever after the carcass of a dead chicken was found in their school yard.
A man, aged 31, is also being treated for fever at a hospital in Pho Thale district after 20 of his chickens died mysteriously.
Phichit health official Prajak Wattanakul said the students would be kept under surveillance for at least 21 days and doctors would also be sent to the school to take care of teachers and all 94 students, as there were fears that the chicken might have
died of H5N1 bird flu." - LINK
Phichit Province-Central Thailand
