A second case of bird flu has been confirmed in Thailand in less than a week, a senior agriculture official informed on Thursday.

The H5N1 virus has been found in poultry in Uthai Thani, a northern province located 220 kilometers away from the capital Bangkok.

“On November 3, around 200 backyard chicken began dying after falling ill in a short period of time,” said Sakchai Sriboonsue, director general of the livestock department.

“We were told two days later today the official test have confirmed that it’s H5N1,” he added.

Thailand is known as the world’s fourth-largest exporter of poultry. It has to slaughter millions of birds to stop the progress of the bird flu virus that was found in poultry in January this year.

JAKARTA – Health minister of Indonesia stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory, situated in the U.S. for fear, Washington could make biological weapons out of it, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said “it is the nuttiest thing, I’d ever heard”.

The systems, which cover vaccines from Dengue fever to the Ebola virus, are highly concerned with scientific communities. Although they were quietly put in place more than a decade ago, they could now be more relevant because of recent concerns about bird flu, U.S officials said.

They make “no scientific sense,” said Peter Palese, chairman of the microbiology department, He said, “the more vaccines out there, the better,” he said. “It’s a matter of protecting ourselves, really, so the bird flu virus doesn’t take hold in these countries and spread.”