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Thailand: Bird flu outbreak in Nakhon Phanom leads to culling of 300,000 fowl.

Thai Press Reports

| August 02, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2008 Thai News Services. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From Thai Press Reports)

Section: General News - Nakhon Phanom undergoes extensive monitoring; number of suspected human cases tops 80, The Nation reports.

More than 1,200 livestock offi-cials on July 30 slaughtered as many as 300,000 fowl in Nakhon Phanom where a bird-flu outbreak has been detected.

Culling commenced immediately following the discovery of the virus at an egg producer. It is the first case this year of the disease in commercial birds. Until now, it had been found only in domestic fowl.

The bird-flu virus killed a teenage boy in Phichit last week.

Nakhon Phanom Governor Nikom Khanmark on July 30 ordered the …

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