Thursday, August 10, 2006

Business urges bird flu education


The government should speed up giving small farmers proper knowledge and understanding of how to prevent a spread of the avian influenza so that the new outbreak of the disease could be curbed efficiently, according to an industry executive.

Panya Chotithewan, Chairman of Saha Farm Co., Thailand's leading entrepreneur of poultry products, said on Tuesday that a detection of the new round of bird flu outbreak had rather had a psychological effect on
trading partners.

He said the company had informed a trading partner in Japan that the avian flu was detected in farms of small farmers and it had not affected chicken exporters who have good preventive measures.

However, the detection of the disease is the fourth in 2 and a half years, which could mount concern that the bird flu would mutate and spread around the world.

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