False alarm on bird flu
A boy and a girl were admitted into separate hospitals in Sukhothai on suspicion that they could possibly have contacted bird flu as their families raised chickens which recently died mysteriously.
However, the public health office in Sukhothai announced on Wednesday that a blood test on the boy and girl showed that they were free of bird flu. The threeyearold girl from Sawankalok district had just caught a cold while the tenyearold boy had influenza, doctors said. Meanwhile Sukhothai's livestock office has already dispatched a team of veterinarians to villages of the boy and girl to collect information and discover the cause of the death of the chickens. As precautionary measures, about 5,000 chickens were culled. The Nation
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