Bird flu donors pledge 60 million dollars plus for Vietnam
Donors have pledged more than 60 million dollars to help control bird flu from 2006-2010 in Vietnam, which was the worst-hit country but has reported no new human case in half a year.
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Seven UN and other international agencies, 23 donors countries and three non-government groups met in Hanoi to discuss the five-year, 250-million-dollar effort to control the spread of the deadly disease, said the World Bank.
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Vietnam, where bird flu has claimed 42 lives, the world's highest death toll since late 2003, has earned praise for culling or vaccinating millions of birds, educating farmers and consumers, and closing live bird markets.
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Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told the meeting that Vietnam had seen "no new cases of avian influenza in more than five months and no humans affected in the past six months."
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The World Health Organization's Vietnam chief Hans Troedsson warned Vietnam not to "fall victim to its own success."
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"This possibility must be prevented from developing because even though the country may be presently free of human and animal HPAI (highly pathogenic avian influenza) cases, it is not virus-free," he said. ? AFP
Donors have pledged more than 60 million dollars to help control bird flu from 2006-2010 in Vietnam, which was the worst-hit country but has reported no new human case in half a year.
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Seven UN and other international agencies, 23 donors countries and three non-government groups met in Hanoi to discuss the five-year, 250-million-dollar effort to control the spread of the deadly disease, said the World Bank.
.
Vietnam, where bird flu has claimed 42 lives, the world's highest death toll since late 2003, has earned praise for culling or vaccinating millions of birds, educating farmers and consumers, and closing live bird markets.
.
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told the meeting that Vietnam had seen "no new cases of avian influenza in more than five months and no humans affected in the past six months."
.
The World Health Organization's Vietnam chief Hans Troedsson warned Vietnam not to "fall victim to its own success."
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"This possibility must be prevented from developing because even though the country may be presently free of human and animal HPAI (highly pathogenic avian influenza) cases, it is not virus-free," he said. ? AFP