The department said it has put under control the virus and did not find the spreading of the virus in the five kilometre radius from the farm which was in Tambon Plaichumpon, Muang district, Methee Ketadisorn, provincial livestock chief said.

The fresh outbreak is the first in almost six months, he said. Officials found the outbreak during a routine inspection at the farms in the province.

The re-emerging of outbreak of the H5N1 virus was confirmed by laboratory tests after the deaths of more than 100 ducks was reported at a farm in the province.

"We have found the H5N1 virus in the ducks and we have ordered around 1,932 ducks in the area to be killed," Methee said.

He added that it was lucky that we found the virus so quickly that we managed the virus in time.