Thailand claimed H7N9 to be free! - KHON KAEN, 13 March 2014 (NNT) – The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has sounded the alarm about the risk of the H7N9 bird flu virus possibly crossing the border from China to neighboring countries. The virus, which produces no detectable symptoms among infected birds, has been detected in chickens in Guangxi and Yunnan in China, bordering Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam. Bird flu watchers have counted at least 290 confirmed illnesses and 66 human deaths resulting from the virus being transmitted from animals to humans. Dr. Ophas Karnkawinpong, Deputy Director General of the Department of Disease Control, said that Thailand has been continuously free from bird flu while there have been sporadic bird flu outbreaks in other countries. This reflects that Thailand has had effective preventive measures since Thailand was hit by a bird flu outbreak in 2006. From then until now, the virus has not been detected, in either animals and poultry so there is no need to panic. Director of the Office of Disease Prevention and Control from Khon Kaen Province has emphasized that relevant agencies need to be ready, especially the Public Health Office, Provincial Offices of Livestock, Surveillance and Rapid Response Teams and Village Health Volunteers who need to be alert to detect anomalies in the area. The following are tips for those living in potentially affected areas: - Poultry farms or farmers who keep poultry in the communities have to be more careful about sick poultry that have died of unusual symptoms by not touching or eating them. - If you inevitably have to touch poultry, especially sick poultry that has died of unusual symptoms, you should not touch them with your bare hands. - People need to wear gloves to prevent themselves from getting infected with the virus and its important to always properly wash hands with soap and clean water for at least three minutes. - Houses should be kept clean with no unknown poultry on the premises. - Waste needs to be eliminated properly by not letting animals’ excretion to remain exposed for long. - Depressed poultry with messy hair and dead poultry should be avoided. Stick to the slogan, eat hot food, use serving spoons and wash hands properly. If any poultry have died with unusual symptoms, please immediately inform Livestock Officers, Village Health Volunteers or community leaders. Information and Source Correspondent : supawadee wangsri Rewriter : Joel Gershon - National News Bureau & Public Relations : thainews.prd.go.th - 13/03/2557 18:07 น. PM10 levels in northern provinces rise 12/03/2557 22:07 น. Rapid response cloud seeding teams to help with drought in Northeast 12/03/2557 11:44 น. 5 districts in Mae Hong Son are declared to be drought-affected areas 12/03/2557 11:37 น. Caretaker PM and Minister of Defense inspect drought pr - - Comment by Ralf Guenther: - In China and in Thailand there is an almost perfect censorship in the media. - The true extent of the epidemic, which has now come long ago grown to pandemic is still concealed in spite of individual messages in China! - In Thailand, H7N9 is rampant along the eastern borders with the neighboring countries of Laos and Cambodia. - Personally, I can shoot 1913, dead pigeons in the City Park in Chiangmai. - An infection of a human being was confirmed also in Chiangmai. - Concerning the highly dangerous mutation to H10N8 in which up to 80% of those infected die at all not informed! - It is now only a few days maximum take weeks and the true extent will be no more to hide! - Ralf Guenther - I am who I am, I am who I always what I am, who I will always be, Im Adam Kadmon, son. - Enlightened is only that which is determined by the creator for it. - Im there! - Homepage: 7xm2012/ - https://plus.google/u/3/108480420120159824355/posts https://plus.google/u/4/114750270331780037685/posts https://plus.google/u/5/112716984676062821680/posts https://facebook/pages/Thai-Social-worker/298598896860473 - ralf.guenther.adam.kadmon@gmail
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