Word: srisomboon
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...Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has pledged to wipe out bird flu in the country by the end of October, and last week enlisted more than 900,000 volunteers to cull sick chickens and do spot checks on potential new outbreaks. His biggest challenge is to get poultry-dependent villages like Srisomboon, where Sakuntala Premphasri lived, onto the program. Villagers told a TIME reporter that even though they knew their chickens were likely dying of bird flu in August, they did not alert livestock officials because they believed the government would cull their poultry?including fighting cocks worth as much...
...chain can start again, as the residents of Srisomboon are now aware. They've turned to local monks to rid the village of malevolent spirits. "The evil that happened here in the last month was a sign," says village chief Hao Juikratoke. "We have done something wrong and we need to put things right again." Their diagnosis of the problem might not go over at the WHO?but the attitude is right...
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