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...THAILAND CONTINGENT: More than 440 soldiers, medics and engineers; another 400 are expected by March MISSION: Ensure security at military bases; provide medical services; reconstruction and relief projects...
...There are many degrees of how you tell the truth ... That is why we don't speak straightforwardly, because we read minds and we speak what the other side wants to hear." Jakrapob Penkair, spokesman for the government of Thailand, responding to press accusations that the government has covered up the country's avian-flu crisis...
...freed himself by cutting off his arm. What Ralston did was courageous and necessary to save his life. Instead of having 15 minutes of fame, Ralston, I am sure, would rather still have his right arm. Judy Sebastian Chester Springs, U.S. Flu Fighters The mass culling of chickens in Thailand and other parts of Asia [NOTEBOOK, Feb. 2] did not mark the first time that officials have taken radical measures to control the outbreak of poultry disease. We reported on an eerily similar situation two years ago when a strain of avian-flu virus threatened to jump from birds...
...white coffin of Kaptan Boonmanuj, 6, is installed in the front room of his family's farmhouse in western Thailand. A framed photo shows Kaptan in his school uniform; nearby, someone has parked his little bicycle. Kaptan fell ill a few days after the New Year with a mysterious fever that developed into lung complications. "Mum," he told his mother, "my chest feels like it is going to explode." When he died last week, Kaptan became Thailand's first confirmed victim of avian influenza, the latest scourge to emerge from Asia. Inside the Boonmanuj household, relatives burn incense and quietly...
...bird flu that is spreading with alarming speed through Asia's poultry farms--killing thousands of chickens in 10 countries and forcing the slaughter of millions more--has so far infected a relatively small number of humans. Fewer than a dozen people in Vietnam and Thailand have caught the flu, all by direct exposure to infected chickens, and there is no evidence yet of the disease spreading from one person to another. But when humans do catch it, it is extremely deadly; at least eight people have already died, most of them children like Kaptan. And the great fear...