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Thailand to host crisis talks as bird flu hits 6 Asian nations
Bangkok, Jan 25: In the face of a deadly outbreak of bird flu which has hit six Asian nations, Thailand prepared to host international crisis talks today and ordered its army to help carry out a massive chicken cull.
Bangkok, Jan 25: In the face of a deadly outbreak of
bird flu which has hit six Asian nations, Thailand prepared to
host international crisis talks today and ordered its army to
help carry out a massive chicken cull.
The affected nations of Cambodia, Japan, South Korea,
Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam have been invited to attend
half-day ministerial talks on Wednesday, foreign minister
Surakiart Sathirathai said.
"The meeting is to draft consistent prevention measures for affected countries. These countries can't work alone because this is a cross-border issue," Surakiart told reporters late yesterday.
"We have to adopt the same standards to make other countries confident."
All except Taiwan and South Korea have confirmed their attendance, while china, the European Union, Hong Kong, Singapore, the United States, the World Health Organisation and the Food and Agriculture Organisation will send officials, he said.
Thailand, meanwhile, dispatched hundreds of troops to help battle its outbreak of the H5N1 virus, which has infected at least two people here and killed at least six in Vietnam.
After weeks of vehement denials that bird flu had reached Thailand, and insistence that a disease that forced the slaughter of millions of chickens since November was a separate illness, the government confirmed Friday that bird flu had been detected in chickens in western Suphan Buri province.
Bureau Report
"The meeting is to draft consistent prevention measures for affected countries. These countries can't work alone because this is a cross-border issue," Surakiart told reporters late yesterday.
"We have to adopt the same standards to make other countries confident."
All except Taiwan and South Korea have confirmed their attendance, while china, the European Union, Hong Kong, Singapore, the United States, the World Health Organisation and the Food and Agriculture Organisation will send officials, he said.
Thailand, meanwhile, dispatched hundreds of troops to help battle its outbreak of the H5N1 virus, which has infected at least two people here and killed at least six in Vietnam.
After weeks of vehement denials that bird flu had reached Thailand, and insistence that a disease that forced the slaughter of millions of chickens since November was a separate illness, the government confirmed Friday that bird flu had been detected in chickens in western Suphan Buri province.
Bureau Report