HK-Thai poultry imports resume

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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=490 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>September 25, 2008</TD></TR><TR><TD>Avian flu</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=496>Thai poultry imports resume

</TD></TR><TR><TD class=theme_text vAlign=top align=left>Hong Kong has resumed importing poultry meat and products from Thailand as the country has taken control measures and no more avian flu cases have been reported, the Centre for Food Safety said today.

It suspended import applications in view of the country's highly pathogenic avian influenza situation in January 2004.

The country regained its highly pathogenic avian influenza free status with the World Organisation for Animal Health in April. :tiphat: http://www.news.gov.hk/en/category/healthandcommunity/080925/txt/080925en05010.htm</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

 

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Re: HK-Thai poultry imports resume

No more have been reported? There is a report from just a couple months ago of dead birds and human suspects, although the humans were claimed negative ... from this thread :tiphat: http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=75432
Pijit suspects 4 new cases of bird flu

July 30th, 2008 - 2:03 pm ICT by Amrit Health authority of Pijit province, Doctor Prajak Wattanakul (ประจักษ์ วัฒนกุล) alongside the Contagious Disease Control Unit reported from the Sam Ngam (สามง่าม) district hospital yesterday that the team were called on to inspect 4 new patients who are suspected of having Avian Flu.
The patients comprise of 2 young children ages 6 and 10 and two elderly women ages 62 and 70. Despite the patients being from different Tambon in the district, physicians found that all had come into contact with poultry before falling ill and all exhibited symptoms of coughing, fatigue, shortness of breath and other bird flu related conditions. Doctors have sent off samples of the patients to be analyzed, and are expecting results in 1-2 days. All 4 have been quarantined, as the chickens that they had contacted all experienced unexplained deaths in the past days...