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Bird Flu Crisis: 20,000 Tons of Poultry Returned from Overseas.

Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand)

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Byline: Phusadee A. P. Yuthamanop

Feb. 3--More than 20,000 tonnes of chicken and poultry products have been returned from Europe and Japan since Jan 23, when Thailand confirmed the discovery of bird flu in the local market.

Taking only losses from missed sales of some 10 million chickens and 100 million eggs, economic damage to the industry has already exceeded three billion baht over the past several days.

Analysts say total losses will be sharply higher, as export bans on Thai poultry could last well through the rest of the year and domestic confidence in eating chicken remains low.

Thailand is the world's fourth largest chicken ...

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