http://www.manager.co.th/IHT/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9490000096821
Probably nothing, but this is a story to keep an eye on for the next few days.
Possible 45 cases?!?! Here we gooooo>>>>sigh….
If you are able to look at the map is shows that these cases are really spread out in Thailand. Laos Has confirmed cases in Birds. Vietnam is dealing with a really bad outbreak of “Dengea Fever” and I saw a report (do not remember where so no link) that in the areas close of Thailand, that the Khamer Republic is also showing cases of sick birds. We have not heard from Burma, and Indonease is a Basket case. The entire region has something going on. So I ask you is this the simmer before the rolling boil???
Already discussed in today’s news thread.
banshee – at 15:14
I think it’s easier to keep it together. As there were several discussions about Thailand in the news thread.
Ministry bans selling aspirin to treat children
BANGKOK, Aug 11 (TNA) - Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health Friday banned sales of aspirin for treatment of children under age 15 at grocery stores and drug stores to prevent any fatality which may be linked to this fever relief drug.
Public Health Minister Pinij Jarusombat said he met Friday with over 500 medical professionals, pharmacists, government officials, fresh market vendors and school staff from Nonthaburi Province on the outskirts of Bangkok to present policies to prevent the spread of bird flu.
The same measures would be implemented in other provinces, he said.
Mr. Pinij said he advised them not to give aspirin to children—especially to those under age 15.
Some patients who have had direct contact with poultry or live in areas where there are suspicious deaths of birds should see doctors who can determine whether they have contracted bird flu virus.
He asked local authorities to control grocery shops to follow the ministry’s guidelines and to stop selling aspirin in its powdered form used for children.
Regarding vendors, he instructed them to keep their sales venues clean and not to sell fowls which died from unknown causes.
Meanwhile, Dr. Prat Boonyawongvirot, Permanent Secretary for Public Health, said coninuing bird flu lab tests around the country had not identified any new cases of avian influenza; so there are no new bird flu patients to report.
Regarding an earlier reported case of a 10-year-old Buddhist novice monk, suspected of having bird flu in the northern province of Uttaradit, had still been given the anti-viral drug oseltamivir used to treat bird flu in humans.”
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