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Thai officials cull 300,000 fowl in Nakhon Phanom after bird flu confirmed.

BBC Monitoring International Reports

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(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Text of report in English by Thai newspaper Bangkok Post website on 31 July

Mass killings of up to 300,000 chickens are under way in tambon Ban Klang in Nakhon Phanom's Muang district after a laboratory test confirmed the area had been hit by the bird flu outbreak.

The province has mobilized 1,500 health officials to carry out the cull on 70 farms.

The Public Health Ministry yesterday put the number of patients suspected of having bird flu at 80, from 19 provinces nationwide. The number has fallen from the 113 suspected cases reported on Saturday.

This will be the second cull in Nakhon …

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