THAILAND: THILAND'S MASS POULTRY CULL TO HALT AN OUTBREAK OF BIRD FLU MAY BE NEARING AN END

Record ID: 647704

  • Title: THAILAND: THILAND'S MASS POULTRY CULL TO HALT AN OUTBREAK OF BIRD FLU MAY BE NEARING AN END
  • Date: 29th January 2004
  • Summary: (W3) UTHAITHANI, THAILAND (JANUARY 29, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. SLV FARMERS ARRIVING WITH SACKS OF DEAD CHICKENS AND HANDING THEM TO LIVESTOCK DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS IN PROTECTIVE CLOTHING 0.07 2. CU MASKED MAN LOOKING ON 0.11 3. SLV SACKS OF CHICKENS BEING TOSSED INTO PIT 0.26 4. SV LOCAL VILLAGERS AND OFFICIALS LOOKING ON 0.32 5. TV/CU MAN SPRAYING DISINFECTANT INSIDE PIT (3 SHOTS) 0.53 6. SLV WORKERS LOOKING ON 0.58 7. MCU (English) UTHAITHANI GOVERNOR AMONRAPUN NIMANANDH SAYING "We have a very good co-operation from the people in the area, including from the owners of the farms. We run this business very good and we believe we'll be able to stop the problems in our province quite soon" 1.15 8. SV OF WORKERS TIPPING LIME OVER PIT SHOWS (2 SHOTS) 1.26 (W3) RACHABURI, THAILAND (JANUARY 30, 2004) (REUTERS) 9. SLV SOLDIERS GETTING OFF BUS AND GATHERING TO CULL CHICKENS 1.33 10. MCU/SV SOLDIERS LINED UP (2 SHOTS) 1.41 11. LV EXTERIOR OF FARM 1.47 12. SV/CU/LAS RUBBER GLOVES BEING HANDED OUT TO SOLDIERS (3 SHOTS) 2.03 13. SV SOLDIERS IN PROTECTIVE GEAR WALKING INTO FARM 2.09 14. SLV SOLDIERS IN SHED FILLED WITH THOUSANDS OF BABY CHICKENS 2.16 15. CLOSE ON CHICKS 2.22 16. SV/CU SOLDIERS SCOOPING CHICKS INTO SACKS (5 SHOTS) 2.45 17. SLV ON SOLDIERS THROWING CHICKS INTO SACKS 2.50 18. SLV BAGS WITH CHICKS BEING PUSHED ON TROLLEY 2.59 19. SLV SACKS OF CHICKS BEING PILED UP OUTSIDE SHED 3.05 20. SLV/LV SHED BEING SPRAYED WITH DISINFECTANT (2 SHOTS) 3.17 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 13th February 2004 12:00
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  • Location: UTHAITHANI AND RATCHABURI, THAILAND
  • Country: Thailand
  • Reuters ID: LVA8ZYBT6ATC21OYZ79R33GIMCDM
  • Story Text: Thailand hopes bird cull is nearly over.



    Thailand's mass poultry cull to halt an outbreak of
    bird flu which has killed at least eight people in Asia may
    be nearing an end.

    Thailand's agriculture minister told reporters he was
    confident the cull was nearly finished.

    He said he was hoping for good news on Sunday, when
    they could confirm that some regions around outbreaks were
    clear of the disease.

    Thailand's mass culling has been greeted with anger by
    some chicken owners, who have complained that the
    government is not offering enough compensation. Angry
    vendors of expensive fighting cocks and exotic birds in
    Bangkok's Chatuchak market protested after the government
    ordered a culling of birds in the 10,000-stall market.

    In Uthaithani province, 250 kilometres north of
    Bangkok, local officials said farmers and villagers who
    owned chickens had willingly participated in the culling
    registering their poultry for compensation and then
    carrying them in sacks to a huge pit to be buried.

    "We have a very good co-operation from the people in
    the area, including from the owners of the farms. We run
    this business very good and we believe we'll be able to
    stop the problems in our province quite soon," Uthaithani
    governor Amonrapun Nimanandh.

    In Rathchaburi, 250 kilometres west of Bangkok, dozens
    of soldiers were set to work clearing a chicken farm
    scooping around 30,000 chicks into sacks to be buried.

    According to the latest government estimates, almost 11
    million chickens have been slaughtered in Thailand, which
    has declared "epidemic zones" in 29 of its 78 provinces.

    However, two western provinces, Suphan Buri and
    Kanchanaburi which were the first and worst hit, had been
    taken off the list as no more chicken deaths had been
    reported, officials said.

    The central bank has said the outbreak, which has so
    far not hit Thailand's key tourism industry, could shave
    0.4 of a percentage point off 2004 gross domestic product
    growth.


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