Garut Cluster Part V

[sharon sanders]

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Thanks Al.

[Harriet]

The health of the Official of the Palu Raid of the inhabitants's Poultry

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Petugas Razia Unggas Warga Kota Palu


The health of the Official of the Palu Raid of the inhabitants's Poultry

the HAMMER -- MIOL: the Official of the Control Command Post of Palu City Bird Flu in Central Sulawesi (Sulteng) merazia the citizen's houses that was to the radius one kilometre from the location of the positive case findings of bird flu attacked the poultry in the Palu Subdistrict territory West.

Ansyar Sutiadi, the Co-ordinator the Control Command Post of Bird Flu, on Sunday, said the raid that was begun since Saturday (26/8) involved police's member and the TNI aimed at gathering all the kept poultry the citizen to be destroyed.

Apart from merazia, pertugas the Command Post also carried out spraying against pen-sometimes the poultry by making use of the liquid disinpectan in order to prevents the spreading of the deadly virus.

The official put the persuasive approach forward so that the prepared citizen hands over his kept poultry willingly, and the official will pay Rp10 thousand per the tail if the citizen asked for compensation.

The "citizen that refused the two choices, the official will ask the letter of the statement of the citizen's readiness to be responsible for all the risks that were caused if the spreading of the bird flu virus in his environment happening," said Ansyar stressed.

Ansyar that also the Palu Sub-district Head West hoped the prepared citizen hand over willingly or with the compensation road because the raid was carried out as the form of the regional government's responsibility of protecting his citizen.

"Anything that was made by the government did not mean anything without the community's support," he said.

The official of the Command Post again carried out the extermination by means of burnt more 100 tails of the poultry belonging to the citizen who was handed over in a voluntary manner, the total poultry that had been destroyed since the case of bird flu stuck up since Thursday last week more 500 tails.

Moreover more 20 citizens that berdomisil in the Kamonji District, the location of the positive case findings of bird flu, visited the Command Post to memeriksakan the health.

Generally the citizen that memeriksakan himself because of suffering flu and the normal fever, except for three people were recommended to do the testing of the sample of blood in RSUD Undata Palu.

"The three of them were taken the sample of blood because of being domiciled at Street Datu Pamusu, was neighbours with Hi."
Baharuddin, the owner of the positive chicken bird flu, said a medical official in the Control Command Post of Bird Flu.

The case of first time bird flu was found in the Palu City when more 20 tails

[Theresa42]

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Medicine Tradisonal Bird Flu must be tested Clinical
August 27, 2006

Garut -- MIOL: Medicine tradisonal racikan Aup (53) that was believed in by him succeeded in curing his child of Umar (16) from bird flu very urgent to immediately be tested scientifically.

"Authentication scientifically this really was needed because beforehand Umar that was stated positive tertular the AI virus could get the maintenance and medical treatment medically," said public relations of RSU Dr Slamet Garut the Yogi Prayogi, on Sunday (27/8).

He explained, Umar when being treated in isolation space of RSU Garut also got medicine Tamiflu, official medicine penyembuh bird flu that was acknowledged by the Government.

According to the Yogi, Umar recovery was the process blessing of medical treatment clinically, although his parents continued to be convinced medicine racikan him that succeeded in curing his child from the illness kind that frightening that.

However as far as this is concerned was not yet gotten signs of the existence of proaktif efforts from the local Health Service and the Pharmacy side to study and research him scientifically towards the content as well as the usefulness of medicine penyembuh product bird flu racikan this Aup.

In fact authentication empirically absolute was needed before the process of this alternative medical treatment was marketed to be traded, he said.

Aup the citizen Rancasalak Cikelet around 130 km the South direction the Garut City to the reporter claimed, was experienced for 25 years dibidang alternative medical treatment so as brave brought came home had Umar from isolation space although the hospital side and the doctor banned him.

He said, the raw material racikan his medicine including the root, the leaves, wood, cobra bile as well as kadut the porcupine that afterwards the raw material was mixt and pounded through to soft the next one was put in the sun to dry until dry and disangrai (was fried without oil) to be made coloured dust yellow. [Original text: Ia mengungkapkan, bahan baku racikan obatnya antara lain akar, daun, kayu, empedu ular kobra serta kadut landak yang kemudian bahan baku itu dicampur dan ditumbuk hingga halus selanjutnya dijemur sampai kering dan disangrai (digoreng tanpa minyak) untuk dijadikan serbuk yang berwarna kuning.]

Aup also claimed has drunk racikan this medicine four times a day and was estimated after four days could recover from the bird flu illness.

Aup that cut medicine since the 1970's said, at this time the price racikan him the behaviour was sold Rp20.000 to cure the citizen's illness of the surrounding village.

"His medicine safe was drunk because of not having the side-effect and not containing chemistry," he said while adding medicine racikan for the bird flu just the first time diujicoba to his child.

Umar that entered isolation space of RSU Dr Slamet August 9 that the next day was brought came home had that. In fact two other sufferers that was treated and stated positive bird flu that is Ai Siti Aminah (9) as well as Euis Lina (35) finally died.

http://www.mediaindo.co.id/berita.asp?id=109911

[Theresa42]

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The child Ambo Sau gradually improved
August 27, 2006

(Main story in Sulawesi thread.)

In the meantime, the condition for the Hari Tresna Alfajar, the patient suspect bird flu that was treated in the doctor's Hospital Slamet, Garut, of West Java, since Wednesday set it was reported his condition gradually improved. Tim [team] was medical also moved this patient to normal maintenance space. Hari it was confirmed only was attacked by the disturbance of normal breathing [read: the Condition for the Bird Flu Patient from Garut improved].

Nevertheless, in the environment of Hari residence in the Saroja hamlet, the Mulyasari Village, Bayombong sub-district, Garut, as far as this is concerned was reported did not have the action anything from the local side of the agricultural service. In fact in Hari house often was gotten the poultry. This like that was seen in the Lili house, the grandfather Hari, that was located at the edge of the Mulyasari Village highway.

Lili was still maintaining four chickens that his pen was located by his house. Several neighbours around it also maintained the poultry. According to Lili, his kept chicken had also died suddenly because of being sick. "Indeed there are those that had died one tail but his carcass has been burnt," said he.

According to Lili, since his grandchild was sick the Garut side of the agricultural Service had visited his house and checked his kept chicken. But until this they never again to do spraying disinfektan.

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The chicken from Cikelet was smuggled
August 27, 2006

Garut, (PR) -

The government determination of the Garut Regency to stem expanded him penyakin Avian influenza (AI) could fail. The virus H5N1 from Cikelet was worried will spread to the other subdistrict and increased the row of casualties of the bird flu virus. Apart from still many wandering poultries in Cikelet, also still was the smuggling of the poultry from Cikelet outside.

As proof, on Friday night (25/8), the official from the Handling Command Post of headquartered Bird Flu in Kec. Cikelet succeeded in thwarting smuggling efforts at least 27 chickens from Cikelet that will be brought went out Cikelet. The official then succeeded in catching two perpetrator of the smuggling namely Ramdan (52) and Syaiful (45). Both of them the inhabitants of the Village Cibolang the Simpang Kec Village. Cisurupan, Garut.

According to the Sub-district Head Cikelet Drs. Jujun Juhana, on Saturday (26/8), after succeeding in being pacified, this poultry was at once destroyed in the page of the Kec office. Cikelet. "His two perpetrators were given by the briefing that during at this time the chicken could not from Cikelet go out, like that also was the reverse," he said. Was lucky, the official so thorough supervised each vehicle that went out entered Cikelet. If careless, AI could increasingly spread.

The basin car was open brought the chicken from the Gambir Sand Village, the Cigadog Village, Kec Cikelet. When passing by, the official of the command post could stop. However the car continued to progress. The official then contacted police so as to be able to be pacified. The chickens will be brought to the Garut City. "The two people claimed to be the port." They also did not know the chicken was from Cikelet isolated, said the sub-district head.

However that had made Jujun startled, since the Garut Regent of H. Agus Supriadi isolated the chicken from Cikelet, the two ports succeeded in selling the poultry from Cikelet to several markets in several places in Garut. In fact, beforehand, the Garut Regent said that the poultry from the Kec territory. Cikelet till several months in the future might not be brought went out.

Received by information in several villages in Kec. Cikelet evidently still many poultries roamed about. The fact startling because of being instructed to be destroyed. "I knew, many citizens who hid his poultry when having the official came to ask his chicken to be destroyed," said the Blessing, the citizen Pasirgambir, on last Saturday.

The pessimist dikendalikan

The government determination controlled the forum for bird flu in Indonesia during 2008, was difficult to be reached. That, according to Pelaksana Harian Breakingprep Komisi Nasional Pengendalian Breakingprep Flu Burung Vice Chairman and Preparedness of the influenza Pandemic, Dr. Tri Satya the Daughter Naipospos, because from the aspect of the budget and the program direction as well as the policy of politics that unclear.

According to Tri, the nonexistence of the holder's seriousness of the policy, made the difficulty overcome bird flu in Indonesia. The government, according to Tri, was seen just so-so faced this threat. ?Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had not suggested firmly to the community what happened from the case of the flu attack burung,? he said.

After control discussions of bird flu in Jakarta, on Saturday (26/8), Tri said, we must prepare SOUP (standard operating procedure) faced this pandemic. "Don't happened as in the case of the case of the tsunami, we were not ready. Supposing that like the tsunami, bird flu attacked widely and the arrival suddenly like the tsunami, we were not ready, all of them were destroyed," said he.

From the aspect of the budget that was prepared in 2007 of Rp 108 billion to handle bird flu, according to Tri, that was too small. Moreover, the budget was not focussed overcame bird flu, but all the kinds of the animal illness. The insignificance of the budget increasingly increased the problem of the control of bird flu. That more worrying, said Tri, uptil now his action plan not yet clear, the mapping was not yet complete, the government political will also not all that.

Tri Satya also appealed to various national companies and the multinational that were touching with the livestock business and the poultry, to be responsible overcame this plague. The food company was ready saji must have the social response by taking part in helping the handling of bird flu.

The National commission the Control of Bird Flu will take them by the hand, so that they show his social responsibility towards the plague of bird flu. ?Jangan wanted to look for the profit, the problem of bird flu must be also paid attention to. They must count how many of their losses, if bird flu spread and ungas-poultry must be destroyed and the community was banned mengonsumsi or frightened mengonsumsi meat ayam,? Tri's words.

The Her condition

The condition for the patient Her (21) that still was treated in RSHS Bandung, on last Saturday, continued to improve. The chairman Tim the Control of Bird Flu of RSHS Bandung, Dr. Hadi Jusuf, Sp. P. D-KPTI said, results of the PCR testing (polymerase chain reaction) first Her showed the bird flu negative.

"But we must be still being waiting produced by PCR second and third." So, the patient still could not be stated by the negative. The possibility of results tomorrow (the day this-red), he said, on Saturday (26/8).

If these results were negative, he hoped the patient Tosin and Her could be returned with Tuesday (29/8) came. However, his assurance was still being waiting for the further condition.

Tosin and Her was two from six patients suspect bird flu from Kab. Garut that was reconciled to RSHS Bandung. Four other patients namely Santi (8), Isma (5), Kuraesin (32) and Osin has been stated by the bird flu negative and was returned.

The Garut regency was the territory in West Java with the assumption of the case of bird flu enough namely 18 people. This case happened in the Cikelet Village and the Cigadog Kec Village. Cikelet. From 18 cases, 5 people died. Three people were stated positive (Umar, Ai Siti the message and Euis Lina) including two people who died.

From these cases, 3 including dying without could be taken the sample (Rubiah, Misbah and Sardi). Six other was reconciled to RSHS. Now six other could be treated in RSU Dr. Slamet Garut.

http://www.pikiran-rakyat.com/cetak/2006/082006/27/0104.htm

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The PATIENT was stated the BIRD FLU NEGATIVE was STILL being isolated
August 28, 2006

Metrotvnews.com, Bandung: Two patients suspect bird flu from Cikelet, Garut, West Java, in the Handsome Sadikin Hospital (RSHS), Bandung West Java, was stated by the bird flu negative. The two patients were Tosin and Herman. However, till Monday late afternoon (28/8), both of them were still being treated in Isolation Space RSHS. Towards both of them also still was put into effect by the handling procedure sebagaiman was done to the patient suspect bird flu. Including among them the ban to the reporter to take their picture.

Beforehand the Chairman Tim [team] the Handling of RSHS Bird Flu, Hadi Yusuf, ascertained Tosin and Herman not terjangkit the bird flu virus. This assurance was received was based on results of the test of the Laboratory of the Research And Development Body (Balitbang) the Department of the Health (the Department of Health) in Jakarta that was done by three times. The team of the decisive doctor in the near future, both of them will immediately leave the hospital. Beforehand, four patients suspect from Cikelet in RSHS, Osin, Kuraesin, Risma, and Santi also was stated by the negative and has come home.

In the meantime, Rasmita Boru Lingga, the patient suspect bird flu that was treated in RS Adam the Owner, Medan, North Sumatra, was still undergoing the intensive maintenance. Up to now, the condition for villagers Saribu Dolok, the Silimakuta Subdistrict, of the Simalungun Regency, North Sumatra, was still being not yet stable. According to Deputy Director RS Adam the Owner, M. Nur Rasyid Lubis, his side did not yet accept results of the sample inspection of blood that was sent to Balitbang Department of Health in Jakarta, on August 22 set. In fact, results of the research into the sample of blood could be used to know the Rasmita condition actual.

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Hat-tip, Solitaire UK!

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It was other that Suspect AI entered RSU Dr. Slamet
The report on the Reporter Kompas Adithya Ramadhan
August 28, 2006

Garut, Kompas - On Monday (28/8) struck 19.30, a male patient suspect bird flu had a name Pidi (60), the citizen of the Cipicung hamlet, the Cikelet Village, the Cikelet Subdistrict, the Garut Regency entered RSU isolation space Dr. Slamet Garut. The patient was reconciled by the Cikelet Community Health Centre with the hot sign high, coughs, and breathless.

Moreover, according to the wife of casualties, Titi, his [her] husband had the story of contact with the poultry even his 10 property chickens znumanyz days ago died suddenly.

The head of RSU public relations Dr Slamet Garut, the Yogi Prayogi, said, at this time the patient could be handled in RSU so as to not yet have the plan to be reconciled to RSHS Bandung.

http://kompas.com/ver1/Kesehatan/0608/28/214405.htm

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Suspected human bird flu case admitted to Indonesian hospital
Posted: 29 August 2006 1952 hrs

JAKARTA : A sixty-year-old man from Indonesia's West Java has been admitted to hospital on suspicion of having bird flu, a hospital official said.

The man, identified as Pidi, was sent to the general hospital in Garut, West Java from the hamlet of Cipicung in the isolated subdistrict of Cikelet where three people have already been infected by bird flu, said Yogi Suprayogi, the spokesman of the hospital.

The man who was admitted with high fever and respiratory problems -- both symptoms of bird flu -- owned 10 chicken which died suddenly two days before he went to the hospital, Suprayogi said.

Three other people from Cikelet are also suspected of having been killed by the disease.

The district animal husbandry office has killed a total of 4,602 birds, including chicken, ducks, geese and doves in the six villages in Cikelet in the past days, said Dida, an official from the office in Garut.

More birds would also be killed in two other nearby villages, he added.

Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation, has 60 confirmed cases of infection so far, 46 of them fatal, the highest number in the world.

While the H5N1 virus that causes bird flu does not spread easily among people, the chance of a mutation occurring which will allow it to do so is heightened as more humans catch it from infected birds.

Scientists fear that if this occurs, a global flu pandemic with a massive death toll could result.

- AFP

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Jakarta (ANTARA News) - A sixty-year-old man from Indonesia's West Java has been admitted to hospital on suspicion of having bird flu, a hospital official said Tuesday.


The man, identified as Pidi, was sent to the general hospital in Garut,

West Java from the hamlet of Cipicung in the isolated subdistrict of Cikelet where three people have already been infected by bird flu, Yogi Suprayogi, the spokesman of the hospital, was quoted by AFP as saying.



The man who was admitted with high fever and respiratory problems -- both

symptoms of bird flu -- owned 10 chicken which died suddenly two days before he went to the hospital, Suprayogi said.



Three other people from Cikelet are also suspected of having been killed by the disease.



The district animal husbandry office has killed a total of 4,602 birds,

including chicken, ducks, geese and doves in the six villages in Cikelet in the past days, said Dida, an official from the office in Garut.



More birds would also be killed in two other nearby villages, he added.



Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation, has 60 confirmed cases of infection so far, 46 of them fatal, the highest number in the world.



While the H5N1 virus that causes bird flu does not spread easily among

people, the chance of a mutation occurring which will allow it to do so is heightened as more humans catch it from infected birds.



Scientists fear that if this occurs, a global flu pandemic with a massive

death toll could result.

http://www.antara.co.id/en/seenws/?id=19038

[Harriet]

Biological Hazard - Indoseia archipelago

Biological Hazard - Indoseia archipelago

Event summary

GLIDE Number BH-20060827-7360-IDN
Event type Biological Hazard Date / time 27/08/2006 - 09:13:44 (Military Time, UTC)
Country Indonesia Area Garut
County / State West Java City -
Cause of event Unknow Log date 27/08/2006 - 09:13:44 (Military Time, UTC)
Damage level Moderate Time left -
Latitude: S 7? 34.383 Longitude: E 110? 59.700
Number of deaths: Not or Not data Number of injured persons: Not or Not data
Evacuated: - Infected -
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Indonesia's Garut district of West Java province will soon conduct poultry depopulation by culling some 2,000 fowls in order to prevent the spread of bird flu in the region. The plan to mass cull fowls was made after the discovery of several chickens which tested positive for the avian influenza virus in the villages of Cigadong and Cijambe, Antara news agency on Saturday quoted local Animal Husbandry Service Head Andi Rachmat as saying. He said that the mass culling of poultry in the district would be conducted on Sunday and Monday. The planned culling of 2,000 fowls would follow the previous ones which involved 3,528 birds, so that the total number of fowls to have been killed would reach 5,528, Andi said. He said the depopulation would be followed by vaccinations of 70,000 fowls with 70,000 doses of vaccine. Plans had been made to provide vaccine for 300,000 fowls in Garut.

Scores of humans suspected of being infected with bird flu were discovered in Garut recently. Nine cases were reported last week. Two of them, a 17-year old man identified as U and a girl identified as ASA (9) (died) were said to be positive bird flu virus carriers. Two other patients, I (5) and S (6) were said tested negative but they were still hospitalized at Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Bandung, West Java provincial capital. Four other suspects, a man initialed M (20), a women initialed EL (35), a girl R (13) and a boy S (4) have died before health official were able to take the sample of their blood. Until now a total of 62 bird flu cases have been confirmed in Indonesia and 47 of them had died, but none of the deaths was caused by having been infected with the virus by a fellow human being, officials said.

[sharon sanders]

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PonyGirl - Can you place the link on the above post so that we can verify?

[hawkeye]

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Florida1-
I did a quick search and I was able to find this:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert...?id=7360&lang=

Hope this helps.

[Harriet]

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RSOE Havaria Emergency and Diaster Information Service

http://visz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?id=7360&cat=dis&lang=eng

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The health Komnas Bird Flu would the Degree of the National Campaign the writer: Sugeng Sumaryadi

Bandung -- MIOL: the National Commission (Komnas) bird flu will roll the national campaign through all the channels, including the print media and electronics, from Friday (1/9).

The program was spread out to cover areas was isolated, because this current socialisation was not yet equitable.

The "spreading of the bird flu virus has covered the hinterlands and was isolated, like in Cikelet, the Garut Regency."

Therefore, we must reinforce the socialisation by means of doing the national campaign, explained the Chairman Komnas Bird Flu, Bayu Krisnamurthi, in Bandung, on Tuesday (29/8).

He said, spread him the bird flu virus to areas of the corner happened because of the official's equipment of livestock breeding and the health could not cover all the area.
Therefore, needed the control method more spread, by means of the national campaign.
Indonesia, was racing pursued the level of the spreading of the bird flu virus that continued to spread.
The national campaign to be efforts together won the race against bird flu.
With the efforts was hoped, the control of the spreading of the bird flu virus could be carried out fast and solidest, with reduced resiko

His spread to humankind.

Bayu confirmed, steps in the control of bird flu have in Indonesia been appropriate directed by WHO.
The organisation of the health of the same world saw the step that was carried out by Indonesia still was very good, and need not yet do the improvement of new steps.
"We only must do refokusing."

The step that was carried out by Indonesia did not contain the weakness, because we always followed by the book directed by WHO, he stated.

In the meantime, a patient suspect bird flu from Cikelet, Direct, 60, the citizen of the Cipicung Village, the Cikelet Village was run off with to RSUD Dr Slamet, on Monday night (28/8).
Originally, the patient that suffered hot and breathless since Saturday (26/8), could be treated in the Cikelet Community Health Centre, but because his condition was difficult enough, he was reconciled to RSUD Dr Slamet.
In RSHS Bandung, the condition two patients Tosin, 71, and Herman, 21, has improved.
The two patients suspect that has been stated by the bird flu negative was planned came home, on Wednesday (30/8)).(SG/OL-02).

Kesehatan
Komnas Flu Burung akan Gelar Kampanye Nasional

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H5 virus found in ducks in Hanoi



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JAKARTA -- Two more people from a bird flu-hit area in Indonesia's West Java have been admitted to hospital on suspicion of contracting avian influenza, health officials said. In Hanoi, Vietnam said Wednesday the H5 strain of bird flu virus had been detected in a flock of ducks in a Hanoi suburb, raising fears of a resurgence of the deadly H5N1 virus in the communist country.
The first Indonesian patient, a 17-year old, was taken on Tuesday to hospital in Garut, West Java, from the hamlet of Ranca Salak in the subdistrict of Cikelet where three people have already been infected by bird flu, said Iman Firmanullah.
Birds in Ranca Salak tested positive of the H5N1 strain of the disease but no information was obtained whether Ridwan had been in contact with them, said Firmanullah, who heads the contagious disease section at Garut's health office.
The Garut general hospital overnight received a 39-year-old man from the nearby hamlet of Cigadog who showed symptoms of bird flu, Firmanullah told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Three other people from Cikelet are also suspected of having been killed by the disease.
The district animal husbandry office has culled a total of 4,697 birds, including chicken, ducks, geese and doves in the six villages in Cikelet in the past days, said Dida Kardiana, an official from the office in Garut.
He said his office was awaiting for further instructions from the central government before carrying out more culling in Cikelet.
Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation, has 60 confirmed cases of infection so far, 46 of them fatal, the highest number in the world.
While the H5N1 virus that causes bird flu does not spread easily among people, the chance of a mutation occurring which will allow it to do so is heightened as more humans catch it from infected birds.
Scientists fear that if this occurs, a global flu pandemic with a massive death toll could result.
On Monday, "two ducks sold in Tan Trieu market, Thanh Tri district, tested positive" to the H5 strain, said Nguyen Van Cam, director of the National Center for Animal Health Diagnosis in Hanoi.
Five ducks were tested, all of them in good health. The N component of the virus has yet to be identified but the H5N1 virus that has killed 42 people in Vietnam since late 2003 is now considered endemic in the country.
The official said prevention measures would be stepped up in the capital to avoid the virus spreading and curtail further human infections.
The trade of live poultry in Hanoi inner district is theoretically forbidden but the ban is poorly enforced.
"This discovery shows that the virus is still circulating among poultry, especially waterfowl," said Hoang Van Nam, deputy head of the agriculture ministry's Animal Health Department, calling for higher vigilance.
The geographic origins of the ducks could not be established, he said, adding a disinfection campaign would be carried out around Hanoi in September.
Vietnam said Saturday the H5N1 strain of bird flu had been detected in a flock of ducks in the southern Mekong Delta. Ducks and other waterfowl can carry and spread the virus without showing symptoms themselves.
The Southeast Asian country is the worst hit by the disease after Indonesia, but it has reported no new human cases this year.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung last week urged local authorities to increase their vigilance and be on the lookout for illegal poultry imports from virus-hit neighboring countries.


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