July 13, 2004

Thailand Kills Poultry In Bid To Prevent Bird Flu Recurrence

More than 3,000 poultry were killed to prevent a recurrence of bird flu at a village in the Thai province of Mukdanhan, reported a local newspaper on Monday.

Thai Agriculture Minister Somsak Thepsuthin was quoted as saying he would use his own money to compensate farmers whose poultry were culled.

Under a Government-sponsored poultry-raising project, each of the 56 families in the village was provided with 20 breeding chickens and ducks on July 2. The poultry are now suspected of carrying the disease which had killed other chickens raised by the farmers before the project.