APEC coordinates response to pandemic avian influenza

On October 31, in Brisbane (Australia), officials and medical experts from 21 members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC) began a two-day meeting to strengthen coordination. in case of a pandemic of bird flu.

Regarding drug treatment, also yesterday general director of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Pascal Lamy said there needs to be an adjustment of intellectual property rights for poor countries to produce flu medicines in case pandemic outbreak.

In Thailand, health experts are strongly critical of the Department of Livestock Development (DLD), which belongs to the Thai Ministry of Agriculture, saying that the country's bird flu could not be as serious as it is now. if DLD soon applies effective prevention measures.

Meanwhile, the Thai Ministry of Health has just officially announced that a female patient suspected of being infected with the H5N1 virus in Phichit province is actually just sick with a common cold.

INTERMEDIATE ( According to TTX, Bangkok Post, Reuters )