The local health office in northern Thailand yesterday declared a boy and
a girl free of bird flu although they were admitted to hospitals on suspicion of
contacting with chickens which have recently died mysteriously.
The public health office in Sukhothai Province said on Wednesday that a blood
test on the boy and girl showed that they were free of bird flu.
The three-year-old girl from Sawankalok district had just caught a cold while
the 10-year-old boy had influenza, doctors said.
Meanwhile, Sukhothai's livestock office has already sent a team of
veterinarians to villages where the boy and girl lived to collect information
and find the cause of the death of the chickens.
As precautionary measures, about 5,000 chickens were culled.
