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POULTRY EPIDEMIC ZONE DECLARED
Alarm at mass chicken deaths in Suphan Buri
July 20, 2006 (Bangkok Post)
Suphan Buri has been declared a poultry epidemic zone after reports of another round of mass chicken deaths. Suphan Buri Governor Songphon Thimasat said mysterious chicken deaths were reported in Song Phi Nong district and several villages in Muang district yesterday.
The story was similar in tambon Taling Chan in Muang district last week when there were about 200 chicken deaths.
Samples of chicken carcasses were sent to the National Institute of Animal Health for laboratory tests but the results were still not yet known.
However, farm owners said the dead chickens had symptoms similar to those found with avian flu.
Livestock officials sprayed disinfectant at the affected farms and areas covering a kilometre in radius from them in a bid to control the epidemic. Mr Songphon said poultry farmers who were affected by the deaths would receive financial assistance.
He said he had learned from livestock officials that there were also outbreaks in nearby provinces.
The owner of a chicken farm in Song Phi Nong district said chickens on his farm died en masse yesterday, adding they appeared to have had similar symptoms to bird flu.
But the farmer said he had no idea whether it was the lethal virus and was still waiting for lab test results.
The farm owner praised the Suphan Buri governor for his swift action in trying to get the problem under control, which would help alert other farm owners.
If they underestimated the situation, their losses would be enormous as was the case in the previous outbreak.
On Sunday, the Livestock Development Department reported that fowls died in massive numbers in 430 tambons in 50 provinces.
But the department's lab tests confirmed that 351 tambons were free of bird flu, while results were pending for the remaining 79 tambons in 23 provinces.
About 1,000 chickens died in Phichit and 300 in Phitsanulok provinces on Monday.
The test results on the samples would be out next week. Pornchai Chamnanpood, director of the department's National Institute of Animal Health, said the fowl deaths were caused by weather changes that prompted certain fungi and bacteria to grow more rapidly.
Source:
http://bangkokpost.net/News/20Jul2006_news14.php
Alarm at mass chicken deaths in Suphan Buri
July 20, 2006 (Bangkok Post)
Suphan Buri has been declared a poultry epidemic zone after reports of another round of mass chicken deaths. Suphan Buri Governor Songphon Thimasat said mysterious chicken deaths were reported in Song Phi Nong district and several villages in Muang district yesterday.
The story was similar in tambon Taling Chan in Muang district last week when there were about 200 chicken deaths.
Samples of chicken carcasses were sent to the National Institute of Animal Health for laboratory tests but the results were still not yet known.
However, farm owners said the dead chickens had symptoms similar to those found with avian flu.
Livestock officials sprayed disinfectant at the affected farms and areas covering a kilometre in radius from them in a bid to control the epidemic. Mr Songphon said poultry farmers who were affected by the deaths would receive financial assistance.
He said he had learned from livestock officials that there were also outbreaks in nearby provinces.
The owner of a chicken farm in Song Phi Nong district said chickens on his farm died en masse yesterday, adding they appeared to have had similar symptoms to bird flu.
But the farmer said he had no idea whether it was the lethal virus and was still waiting for lab test results.
The farm owner praised the Suphan Buri governor for his swift action in trying to get the problem under control, which would help alert other farm owners.
If they underestimated the situation, their losses would be enormous as was the case in the previous outbreak.
On Sunday, the Livestock Development Department reported that fowls died in massive numbers in 430 tambons in 50 provinces.
But the department's lab tests confirmed that 351 tambons were free of bird flu, while results were pending for the remaining 79 tambons in 23 provinces.
About 1,000 chickens died in Phichit and 300 in Phitsanulok provinces on Monday.
The test results on the samples would be out next week. Pornchai Chamnanpood, director of the department's National Institute of Animal Health, said the fowl deaths were caused by weather changes that prompted certain fungi and bacteria to grow more rapidly.
Source:
http://bangkokpost.net/News/20Jul2006_news14.php
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