PUBLISHED: 8 May 2025 at 04: 55
Cambodia and Laos have temporarily banned the trade of livestock and related animal products from Thailand to avoid bacillus outbreaks.
According to China’s Xinhua News Agency, Cambodia’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries has taken the move, and is carefully monitoring the bacillus outbreak in parts of Thailand.
” Now, there are no cases of the disease reported in Cambodia, but as a precautionary measure, the government has imposed a temporary moratorium on the trade of livestock and related pet products from all Thai border intersections”, it said.
It added that officials have worked closely together with several state firms at those borders bridges to enforce the ban. No expression was to hand on how much it will last.
However, Laos has imposed restrictions on imports of meat, beef, chicken and horses meat from Thailand since May 5 to lessen the risk of an leptospirosis epidemic in the country.
All cars from Thailand may be disinfected before entering Laos, according to Thai advertising.
In Thailand, all 636 at-risk people have completed a seven-day period of observation after being exposed to the condition, Dr Narong Chankaew, commander of the Mukdahan Provincial Public Health Office, said on Wednesday.
Dr Narong said all of them received treatment to prevent disease during the study period and they can then resume normal actions.
While the pandemic, in which one man died and four people were hospitalised, has raised awareness of the condition, many people are also afraid of consuming meat, he said.
He insisted it is safe to eat foods that is completely cooked at a temperature of at least 120C or boiled for 30 minutes to remove any possible anthrax bacteria.
The Department of Disease Control said the current outbreak in Mukdahan is confined to an region in Don Tan area.
Those who were infected were exposed via body email or eating poisoned foods.
Anthrax is typically found in animals, bull, goats and sheep, but in this situation, meat is believed to be the source.
Dr Narong said wellness investigators are certain that they have located the cause of the disease– the killing of a calf on April 12 on a plastic planation in Ban Khok Sawang in tambon Lao Mee. He claimed that the victim died from involvement in the butchering and developed illness on April 24.