Thailand: Bird flu watch in Phichit, Nakhon Phanom suspended.

(From Thai Press Reports)

Section: General News - With no new bird flu outbreak reported in the last 21 days, the fourth round of bird flu monitoring imposed in Thailand's two worst-hit provinces, Phichit, and Nakhon Phanom, has been suspended, a senior official said here Thursday.

Following the bird flu outbreaks in Phichit in the north and Nakhon Phanom in the Northeast from July through mid-August this year, the three-week 4th round of 21-day close vigilance for avian influenza was imposed in the two provinces on August 23, he said.

There have been no reports of new poultry infected with the deadly virus since then.

The provinces were …