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Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health is tightening measures to prevent the spread of avian flu. Hospitals near the Cambodian border are on high alert following Cambodia’s report of its seventh H5N1 case this year.
The Ministry of Public Health, led by Opas Karnkawinpong, received an epidemiological report from the Sa Kaeo Provincial Health Office. The latest case involves a five year old girl from Takeo province, southeastern Cambodia, who was confirmed with the H5N1 virus.
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Opas stated that all provincial health offices along the Cambodian border, particularly in Sa Kaeo, which borders Takeo Province, have collaborated with Thai-Cambodian border disease control checkpoints to intensify surveillance for avian influenza.
Hospitals in every province have been instructed to closely monitor patients with pneumonia symptoms, especially those with a history of contact with poultry or unexplained pneumonia cases involving multiple family members.
Additionally, collaboration with provincial livestock offices is ongoing to monitor sick or dead poultry, regardless of the cause, to prevent the virus from spreading to other animals or humans.
To ensure timely treatment, hospitals are screening and isolating suspected avian flu cases. Additionally, collaboration with provincial livestock offices is ongoing to monitor sick or dead poultry, regardless of the cause, to prevent the virus from spreading to other animals or humans.
continued: https://aseannow.com/topic/1332725-...athered’-measures-to-curb-avian-flu-outbreak/
Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health is tightening measures to prevent the spread of avian flu. Hospitals near the Cambodian border are on high alert following Cambodia’s report of its seventh H5N1 case this year.
The Ministry of Public Health, led by Opas Karnkawinpong, received an epidemiological report from the Sa Kaeo Provincial Health Office. The latest case involves a five year old girl from Takeo province, southeastern Cambodia, who was confirmed with the H5N1 virus.
-snip-
Opas stated that all provincial health offices along the Cambodian border, particularly in Sa Kaeo, which borders Takeo Province, have collaborated with Thai-Cambodian border disease control checkpoints to intensify surveillance for avian influenza.
Hospitals in every province have been instructed to closely monitor patients with pneumonia symptoms, especially those with a history of contact with poultry or unexplained pneumonia cases involving multiple family members.
Additionally, collaboration with provincial livestock offices is ongoing to monitor sick or dead poultry, regardless of the cause, to prevent the virus from spreading to other animals or humans.
To ensure timely treatment, hospitals are screening and isolating suspected avian flu cases. Additionally, collaboration with provincial livestock offices is ongoing to monitor sick or dead poultry, regardless of the cause, to prevent the virus from spreading to other animals or humans.
continued: https://aseannow.com/topic/1332725-...athered’-measures-to-curb-avian-flu-outbreak/
