Avian flu kills tigers in Thailand, chickens in Vietnam
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Oct 19, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - A government official in Thailand said 23 tigers at a private zoo died of avian influenza after eating the carcasses of chickens believed to have had the disease, the Associated Press  reported today.
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Dec 29, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - Vietnam and Thailand have continued to battle avian influenza in recent weeks, with a total of 19 outbreaks reported in a dozen provinces, according to health officials of the two countries.
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Bird flu has spread to ducks and chickens near Vietnam's border with China, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday.
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Some 23 tigers in a private zoo inThailand have suspectedly died of avian influenza virus, officialssaid here on Tuesday. The authorities are conducting test over samples of
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South Korea plans to kill cats and dogs to try to prevent the spread of bird flu after an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 virus at a chicken farm last week, officials said Monday.
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The bird flu epidemic which has killed 31 people in Southeast Asia so far this year, may have also killed 23 tigers at a zoo in eastern Thailand, according to officials in Thailand.
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Malaysia&#39;s Kelantan Veterinary Services Department killed 888 chickens, ducks and birds at Belian villatge in Tumpat district where new bird flu case was confirmed on Sunday, an offical said on Tuesday.
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Bird flu has spread to another province in northern Vietnam and now nine cities and provinces have been struck by the deadly virus in less than a month, the Agriculture Ministry said.
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MALAYSIA yesterday announced new bird flu cases and said a veterinary worker had been hospitalised with a fever and cough. Officials said eight birds had died from the H5 strain of avian flu in three villages
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Thailand ordered a cull of 40 tigers suspected of suffering from bird flu Wednesday after seven more of the big cats died, bringing the tiger death toll at an infected zoo to 30.
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Dec 10, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - Southeast Asian nations are mounting a two-tiered attack on the avian influenza virus that has devastated poultry flocks and raised the specter of a potential human flu pandemic.
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Vietnam said two children who died of  bird flu this month had tested positive for the H5N1 strain,  bringing to three the number of fatalities from the latest  outbreak of a virus that killed 24 people across Asia earlier  this year.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia  - A farm near the Cambodian capital was closed after about 2,300 chickens died of Avian flu - apparently the first cases of the disease in the country following an epidemic in Asia earlier this year.
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Thai authorities say tests have confirmed 23 Tigers have died of bird flu at a private zoo in the eastern province of Chonburi. Thirty other tigers at the zoo, which houses hundreds of big cats, are said to be ill with the disease.
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A wild bird which died of avian flu in Hong Kong is being tested for the lethal strain that has killed 32 people in Southeast Asia this year.
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The H5N1 strain of bird flu swept through 10 Asian countries early this year, resulting in the death or slaughter of over 100 million chickens and the deaths of more than 20 people.
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As bird flu spreads in the region, Vietnam is deploying teams of veterinary experts nationwide to inspect efforts to fight the disease that has killed 19 people in the country, including three this month, officials said Monday.