BANGKOK, Nov 13 (TNA) - Thailand and five neighbouring Southeast Asian countries met in Bangkok Monday to find ways to contain the spread of contagious animal diseases and producing more effective animal vaccines after being hit by a series of deadly diseases including avian influenza (bird flu) in recent years.
Senior officials from Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam attended the three-day meeting jointly presided over by Thailand's Department of Livestock Development director general Yukol Limlamthong and Mikiharu Sato, representative of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Thailand.
Major issues which were discussed at the meeting include the success of joint cooperation between the six Southeast Asian countries in battling against animal diseases in the region during the first phase of the program in the past five years and their intention to carry on with the second phase for the coming three years.
Other significant issues are monitoring animal diseases, establishing improved control over moving animals in the region and the manufacture of animal vaccines.
Mr. Yukol told journalists that JICA is concerned on information and on animal diseases which could be spread among neighbouring countries whose borders are quite porous and easy to pass through, for example, between Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.
Referring to the bird flu situation in Thailand, Mr. Yukol said that surveillance units in the kingdom are spraying disinfectant in poultry farms across the country beginning Monday (Nov 13) to prevent further outbreaks of the disease. The campaign will last two weeks.
He said there was no report of new outbreaks of bird flu in the past 100 days, but warned residents of flood-hit areas not to raise poultry in open areas and to avoid contact with fowl because the disease had become endemic and usually re-emerges during the winter.
Senior officials from Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam attended the three-day meeting jointly presided over by Thailand's Department of Livestock Development director general Yukol Limlamthong and Mikiharu Sato, representative of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Thailand.
Major issues which were discussed at the meeting include the success of joint cooperation between the six Southeast Asian countries in battling against animal diseases in the region during the first phase of the program in the past five years and their intention to carry on with the second phase for the coming three years.
Other significant issues are monitoring animal diseases, establishing improved control over moving animals in the region and the manufacture of animal vaccines.
Mr. Yukol told journalists that JICA is concerned on information and on animal diseases which could be spread among neighbouring countries whose borders are quite porous and easy to pass through, for example, between Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.
Referring to the bird flu situation in Thailand, Mr. Yukol said that surveillance units in the kingdom are spraying disinfectant in poultry farms across the country beginning Monday (Nov 13) to prevent further outbreaks of the disease. The campaign will last two weeks.
He said there was no report of new outbreaks of bird flu in the past 100 days, but warned residents of flood-hit areas not to raise poultry in open areas and to avoid contact with fowl because the disease had become endemic and usually re-emerges during the winter.
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