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Sunday, 02 May 2010 09:04 |
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 BANGKOK POST (May 2, 2010). Thousands of openbill storks in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya's Phak Hai district have died, with avian influenza thought to be a possible cause.
A vast wasteland in tambon Khok Chang of Ayutthaya is home to tens of thousands of Asian openbill storks (nok pakhang). It is one of the largest flocks of birds in Ayutthaya.
A few days ago thousands of Asian openbill storks died without apparent cause. Residents are worried the flock might have been infected with the bird flu virus as Phak Hai district was one of many areas nationwide reported with the virus outbreak last year.
They want authorities to investigate why the birds have died.
``Bird carcasses lie scattered over the wasteland and the canal bank nearby, sending out a bad smell all over the place,'' Vichien Puanglamjiak, a local farmer said.
Phak Hai district chief Rewat Prasong has warned residents to stay away from the area.
Health experts and veterinarians will collect samples from the carcasses to determine the cause of the birds' death, he said.
Mr Rewat said the birds might have eaten some kind of toxic aquatic animal or they might have been poisoned by farmers who raised fish which were eaten by the birds.
In his view, the bird flu virus was unlikely to be the cause of the deaths, as it usually spreads in the early winter season, not in the summer.
However, it was not being ruled out in the investigation, said the district chief. |
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Wednesday, 05 August 2009 11:02 |
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 Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 - update 60 (Source WHO)
Laboratory-confirmed cases of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 as officially reported to WHO by States Parties to the IHR (2005) as 31 July 2009
31 July 2009
As of 31 of July 2009, 168 countries and overseas territories/communities have reported at least one laboratory confirmed case of pandemic (H1N1) 09. All continents are affected by the pandemic.
The countries and overseas territories/communities that have newly reported their first pandemic (H1N1) 2009 confirmed case(s) since the last web update (6 July 2009) as of 31 July 2009 are: |
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Thursday, 25 June 2009 23:13 |
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 More than two months since the swine flu outbreak began in Mexico, Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari confirmed on Wednesday that Indonesia had its first cases. Siti told a news conference that six Indonesians had contracted the H1N1 influenza virus, but five of them were overseas ” including a health official sent to China on a fact-finding mission on the outbreak of the disease. The sixth case is a pilot now hospitalized in Jakarta. In Bali, a British tourist has also been confirmed as infected.
Of the five Indonesians who tested positive abroad, three are in Singapore and one in Australia. The health official remains in Beijing, where she is being treated. Another Indonesian in Macau and another tourist in Bali are also both in the hospital with suspected swine flu. The World Health Organization says that as of Wednesday, 102 countries have officially reported 55,620 cases of swine flu, including 238 deaths, 90 percent of which are in Mexico. |
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Friday, 19 February 2010 15:47 |
 Riding on the bandwagon and the huge success, as well as, worldwide popularity/usage of Facebook, the Communication and Information Systems for the Control of Avian Influenza (CISCAI) finally lands a space on Facebook. The site was developed and is being managed by Mr. Bambang Wijayanto, CISCAI System Administrator. Recently, Facebook (FB) and similar social networking sites (i.e. Twitter, Friendster,etc.) have proven to be effective media for public and social participation, most specially during post-disaster situations, as have been shown in the most recent Philippine's post -Typhoon Ketsana (2009), where some requests for relief for flood-ravaged victims came from these internet-based sources. Similarly, the same use of internet-based social networking services have been exploited in the post-Haiti earthquake disaster, where most of the reports of buried victims came from text/short messaging system (SMS)/tweets from social networking sites using mobile devices such as cellular phones. |
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 10:08 |
 GENEVA, July 27 (Xinhua) -- The A/H1N1 influenza has caused a total of 816 deaths worldwide as the virus continues to spread, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. Of all the deaths, 707 occurred in the Americas, 44 occurred in South-East Asia, 34 in Europe, 30 in the Western Pacific region and one in the Eastern Mediterranean region, the UN agency said in a latest update of the pandemic situation. In addition, more than 20 countries and territories have reported their first confirmed case(s) of the H1N1 influenza since the last update of information was released on July 6. Those countries and territories include Afghanistan, Andorra, Belize, Bhutan, Botswana, Haiti, Namibia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Solomon Islands. |
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