My Thailand Diary

From CNN 31st October…..Thai health authorities said earlier Monday they are stepping up their guard against the smuggling into the country of bird flu vaccine for poultry.
Dr. Manit Arunakun, deputy chief of the Food and Drug Administration, said the use of bird flu vaccine was not approved because it might keep the birds from dying but still allow them to carry the virus, increasing the potential for its spread.
Deputy Public Health Minister Anutin Anutin said that six smuggling arrests had been made at a border checkpoint in the northern province of Chiang Rai this year, with 1,500 bottles of bird flu vaccine from China confiscated. With one bottle containing enough vaccine for 650 birds, the total seized would have been enough for almost 1 million doses.
Manit said the number of checkpoints manned by food and drug specialists would be increased to 61 from the current 25.
The sale of such vaccine is illegal and those violating the law could face a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment.

WOW I didn’t know there were birdflu vaccinations for birds.  Did you?