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Thai government 'repeats bird flu management errors'
Source: TerraNet/AFP
20 July 2004 | EN
Thailand's government has failed to learn important lessons from its last outbreak of bird flu, according to politicians and public health officials there.
The government was accused of covering up outbreaks, both in January this year and within the last month, but says it did not want to trigger a scare by "releasing information with a lot of publicity". Critics, however, say the government's reticence could have cost lives.
The UN Food and Agriculture Association warned on Friday that the mistakes that fuelled the last major outbreak are being repeated in Asia, and advised countries to increase surveillance.
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Nigel Thomas ( China (including Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao) )
12 October 2008
Too often these nations (especially in SE Asia) think that by trying to hide their internal issues from the rest of the world the issues don't exist.
But these are not internal issues. They will effect all of us.
We need to keep pandemic preparedness at the forefront of every business manager's mind. It won't go away so better start preparing.
Nigel Thomas
For free references and resources go to Bird Flu Manual Online [http://www.birdflu-manual.com] or, if you need more comprehensive tutorials, tools and templates, consider Bird Flu D-I-Y eManual for your pandemic planning [http://www.birdflu-manual.com/pandemic-planning.htm] .
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