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Viewing cable 06BANGKOK4613, AVIAN INFLUENZA AND FIGHTING COCKS IN THAILAND

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06BANGKOK4613 2006-07-28 13:31 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Bangkok
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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 BANGKOK 004613 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR G/AIAG/JLANGE 
DEPARTMENT FOR OES/STC/MGOLDBERG AND PBATES 
DEPARTMENT FOR OES/PCI ANNE COVINGTON 
DEPARTMENT FOR OES/IHA/DSINGER AND NCOMELLA 
DEPARTMENT PASS TO USAID/ANE/CLEMENTS AND GH/CARROLL 
DEPARTMENT PASS CDC ATLANTA 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR OSEC AND APHIS 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR FAS/DLP/HWETZEL AND 
FAS/ICD/LAIDIG 
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FOR OSD/ISA/AP FOR LEW STERN 
PARIS FOR FAS/AG MINISTER COUNSELOR/OIE 
ROME FOR FAO 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: TBIO EAGR KFLU PGOV PREL SOCI XE
SUBJECT: AVIAN INFLUENZA AND FIGHTING COCKS IN THAILAND 
 
REF: BANGKOK 4530 
 
BANGKOK 00004613  001.2 OF 002 
 
 
1.  In a public address on July 26, Prime Minister Thaksin 
said it was imperative that local villagers report unusual 
poultry deaths to and register all fighting cocks with 
authorities.  Thaksin said, "The case in Phichit (Province) 
is that villagers wanted to get rid of all their dead 
chickens on their own because they were afraid the 
authorities would cull the rest of their birds."  Referring 
to the 17-year-old boy who died earlier in the week, 
Thailand's first human case of H5N1 avian influenza in more 
than eight months, Thaksin said, "He had been in contact with 
fighting cocks, which were not declared for fear they would 
be culled by authorities."  Poultry die-offs have been 
occurring in Thailand's central and north central provinces 
for over a month, but many farmers and householders bury 
their dead chickens without informing the authorities, making 
it impossible to obtain fresh specimens for laboratory 
testing.  So far, the only bird that has tested positive for 
the H5N1 virus was the carcass of a fighting cock in Phichit 
Province. 
 
2.  Thaksin's comments point out a situation that may be 
unique to Thailand and that may account for some farmers' 
unwillingness to report poultry deaths.  Many households in 
Thailand raise fighting cocks, which can be worth thousands 
of dollars, along with free-range chickens.  Thailand has a 
program for compensating farmers for culled chickens, but 
working out a method for evaluation and compensation of 
fighting cocks is more problematic. 
 
3.  According to the Ministry of Agriculture and 
 
BANGKOK 00004613  002.2 OF 002 
 
 
Cooperatives, Thailand has as estimated one million fighting 
cocks, but less than 50,000 are registered.  Although 
Thailand vaccinates fighting cocks and even issues them 
passports with their vaccination records so they can travel, 
much of the trade in fighting cocks is illegal, and thus 
movement of these birds is often kept hidden.  In September 
2005, provincial authorities in Kamphaeng Phet, which borders 
Phichit Province, blamed a poultry outbreak there on the 
clandestine movement of H5N1-infected fighting cocks within 
the province.  Several of Thailand's 2005 reports to the 
World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) include fighting 
cocks in their description of affected populations in poultry 
outbreaks in the central and north central provinces. 
 
4.  Fighting cocks may play a role in avian influenza across 
borders as well.  In 2004, in Kota Baru, Malaysia, several 
fighting cocks that died of H5N1 infection were thought to 
have been smuggled into the country from Thailand. 
Indonesia's March 10, 2005, report to the OIE of a poultry 
outbreak states the source of the outbreak as the "illegal 
movement of animals from neighboring countries (imported 
fighting cocks)." 
 
5.  Comment: Fighting cocks appear to play some role - 
perhaps an important role - in the avian influenza milieu; 
more attention should be paid to studying that role, and more 
effort should be placed on controlling their movements, but 
because of the secretiveness associated with them, that will 
be a difficult task. 
ARVIZU