Alert for H7N9 birdflu virus after deaths in China
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- The Public Health Department has set up nationwide surveillance for H7N9 bird-flu virus after three people in China were infected and two of them died.

The system includes a lab test for confirmation, Surveillance Rapid Response Teams (SRRTs) and a check at hospitals around the country for patients with symptoms similar to severe pneumonia and flu, Public Health Minister Pradit Sinthawanarong said Monday.

So far, no suspects have been found and there have been no reports of H5N1 bird-flu cases over the past five years. The Bureau of Epidemiology would also work with related agencies inside and outside the country on this alert.


-- The Nation 2013-04-01

Yeah this reared its ugly head apparently beginning of March, in China , they just released the details today , so it's had a month to travel, no kissing old hens chaps , ladies keep the old cock locked up

Health Ministry vigilant on H7N9 detected in China
By Digital Media

BANGKOK, April 1 - Thailand is watching closely the reappearance of the H7N9 which was detected in China recently although the virus has not been found in Thailand so far, according to the Public Health Ministry.

The public health authorities are cooperating with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to monitor the possible spread of the disease after China reported two deaths from the virus.

Health Minister Pradit Sintawanarong said the Department of Medical Sciences laboratories are prepared for testing and the Bureau of Epidemiology and hospitals nationwide are closely monitoring patients with respiratory diseases and illness.Investigation teams are on hand for rapid detection and disease control.

Livestock Department and the Agriculture and Cooperatives are in charge of monitoring farm poultry while the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is responsible for birds in the wild, he said.

China has reported 88 patients as being under medical surveillance. Three patients in China have infected with the H7N9 avian influenza -- a sub-type that had not previously been transmitted to humans. The Chinese government said two men, one aged 87 and the other 27, had died after being infected with H7N9.

A 35-year-old woman in the eastern province of Anhui was also in critical condition after developing the disease in March. (MCOT online news, agencies)


-- TNA 2013-04-02

Oh no thats all we need

3 people die in China of bird flu and Thailand knee jerks? Bird brains more likely.

Here in the farms in north east the farmers put tons of chicken ki inside the putato fields, it smells terrible and hundred of flys comes!

So it seems to be no one here fear about the virus!

But we should not forget that most of eu country's , was cheated by farmacy industries and bought millions of vaccine

For nearly every people!

Years later , nothing realy bad happens

And the farmers was not allowed let chicken outside in my homecountry!

get ready for chicken prices to spike ( again)

I hope no people come in contact with H1N1...But...It would be refreshing to see the uncontrolled population of uncontrolled chickens wiped out again! Chicken owners who just let the two legged feathered rats roam and destroy property as they spread their waste and dig up and kill gardens need t get a clue. In most countries chickens are kept in coops, screened in area that protects the birds from predators and protects property and people from the birds and the diseases they spread.

Since relocating to Thailand, I have learned that the only good chicken is the dead, cooked one on my plate.

Keep clear of the nasty birds and bring on the H1N1