The Thai prime minister fired his agriculture and defense ministers on Oct. 5 following their failures to beat the countrys bird flu crisis and settle the political unrest in the Muslim-dominated south.
Avian influenza re-emerged in poultry in 38 new sites in three Mekong Delta provinces and claimed the life of another person Tuesday.
No new bird flu outbreaks occur in two weeks. No new outbreaks of bird flu have occurred in Vietnam over the past two weeks, according to a report by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rura…
Turkey said on Wednesday two people had been diagnosed with bird flu the first human cases outside Southeast Asia and China and a doctor said one of them, a 14-year-old boy, had died from the killer H5N1 strain.
A likely bird flu outbreak is threatening Lien Hoa commune, in Quang Ninh province’s Yen Hung district.
Five people in Japan may have been infected with the bird flu virus after an outbreak among chickens in February, but there is no risk they will develop symptoms and no chance of more infections, Reuters reported.
Vietnam and the United Nations have jointly launched an awareness campaign on the risks posed by bird flu as the virus continues to spread in two southern provinces.
A leading virologist has urged countries battling new H5N1 bird flu outbreaks in animals to analyse the genetic makeup of the virus to trace its origins and better arm themselves to combat the disease.
Thailand has suffered its first outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus in six months, an Agriculture Ministry official said Monday after a rash of outbreaks in Vietnam and four human deaths in Indonesia this year.
