Health officials in Svay Rieng province, which was hit by an outbreak of bird flu (H5N1) early this month, said the virus has been stopped and there was no sign of a continuing outbreak. Sen Sovann, the deputy secretary-general of the Agriculture Ministry and director-general of the animal health and production department, told Khmer Times on February 7 that an outbreak of bird flu had struck Svay Rieng province.
 

Provincial hospital director Chan Dara confirmed the outbreak yesterday during a Japan International Cooperation Agency press tour to a more than $9 million under-construction hospital building at the provincial referral hospital. “It infected only birds, not humans. There was no effect on humans,” he said.
 

“A health official and agricultural department official went to the site to educate the people and told them to be careful when killing the chickens.” He could not confirm how many chickens had been afflicted, adding that no more cases had been confirmed since the initial outbreak.

 

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For sure the price  of  any available  chicken  will be  very high  for some time in that  locality!   So so  happy to know  that a  convoy of  Japaneses were unlikely to have  been at any risk !  I expect that they dined  on  sweet  cake.  Ahem.