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Just a month after their first reported human case of bird flu, Myanmar is reporting another outbreak in poultry.
Bird flu outbreak in chickens near Myanmar-Thai border
YANGON (Myanmar) - MYANMAR has reported an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus among domestic chickens in a village near the Myanmar-Thai border, state-run media reported on Saturday.
The unusual deaths of domestic chickens in a village in eastern Shan State's Mongphyat township, about 50 kilometres north of the Myanmar-Thai border, was reported to the Livestock Breeding and Veterinary department on Dec 23, the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported.
Laboratory tests confirmed the presence of the H5N1 virus, the paper said.
A report by the department assessed that the virus spread to the area from Keng Tung township following a bird flu outbreak there on Nov 18 when 2,058 chickens at a farm died and another 533 were slaughtered to prevent the virus from spreading.
Mongphyat is situated 58 kilometres south of Keng Tung.
Myanmar had earlier confirmed its first human bird flu case on No 27, when a 7-year old girl in the village in Keng Tung township was infected during a bird flu outbreak among poultry.
The young girl was treated at the People's hospital in Keng Tung before she was discharged.
