No human infection of bird flu assured

 

 

The Department of Disease Control says there is no human infection case of bird flu although poultry deaths were reported in five provinces.

 

Assurance of no human infection was given by the director-general of the Department of Disease Control Dr Jetsada Chokdumrongsuk following poultry deaths in Songkhla, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Suphanburi, Sukhothai, and Phitsanulok.

 

He said the department continued to monitor the spread of bird flu although there was no human infection case for the past 12 years.

 

But for the unusual poultry deaths, he said the department received reports from these five provinces in June alone.

 

Full Story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/no-human-infection-bird-flu-assured/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-7-3

First I've heard about this outbreak... I guess chicken is off the menu for me for the foreseeable future.

Last week it was just cholera? Now bird flue? Or is it really cholera?

 

Famous last words sneezes !

Every year here in south Surin, in April-June, about 3/4 or 2/3 of the chooks on the family farm die (but not the geese or ducks). Every year I get anxious about avian flu and urge the family to kill, eat or sell the chooks BEFORE whatever it is strikes. Every year they laugh & ignore me, eating & selling the dead or dying chooks quite cheerfully ... (sigh).

The catch word is  YET...

Geezer

And they keep the brain-eating virus epidemic a secret? No wonder nobody knows.