Thousands of ducks die in Vietnam

[rutsuyasun]

Ducks die en masse in Vietnam's southern province

HANOI, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Several thousands of ducks in Vietnam's southern Soc Trang province have died in the last few days, Vietnam News Agency reported Monday.
Some 4,000 ducks in two farms in the province's Nga Nam and Thanh Tri districts have been either killed by an identified disease or culled by local relevant agencies. Specimens from the affected waterfowls are being tested for bird flu viruses.
The Vietnamese government has asked sectors and localities nationwide to focus their anti-disease activities on surveillance, detoxification, vaccination, quarantine, and control over transport and trade of poultry and related products.
Bird flu has, since December 2006, hit 33 communes in 15 districts in the three southern provinces of Ca Mau, Bac Lieu and Hau Giang, according to the Department of Animal Health under the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Monday. It has killed some 6,000 poultry, and led to the forced culling of nearly 23,000 others, mainly ducks and chickens. Bird flu outbreaks, starting in Vietnam in December 2003, have killed and led to the forced culling of dozens of millions of fowls in the country.


http://rss.xinhuanet.com/newsc/english/2007-01/08/content_5580026.htm

 

[hawkeye]

Re: Thousands of ducks die in Vietnam

Thousands of Ducks Mysteriously Dying in Vietnam


Vietnam health officials are reporting that over the last few days thousands of ducks have died from a mysterious virus that could be Bird flu
It is being reported that thousands of ducks in Vietnam's southern Soc Trang province have died over the last couple of days. Currently what is killing the ducks is not known however health officials have taken samples from dead birds in order to have them tested for Bird Flu.

In light of this latest mass duck fatality, the government is asking Vietnam agencies to step up their act on surveillance, detoxification, vaccination, quarantine, and control over transport and trade of poultry and related products.

The government states that since Dec. of 2006, 6000 birds have died from H5N1, and 23 thousand more have been killed to try to control the spreading of the virus.

Source: Xinhua

 

[Sharpe]

Re: Thousands of ducks die in Vietnam

Note that Soc Trang was where two people with suspected bird flu were treated and tested a week ago.

http://www.thanhniennews.com/healthy...8&newsid=23759
Six suspected bird flu cases in Mekong Delta


Six people were isolated under suspicion of bird flu infection in the Mekong Delta?s Ca Mau and Soc Trang provinces, all of them reportedly had eaten chickens, said local health officials Friday.

Huynh Trung Kien, acting manager of Ca Mau?s health department said the four cases, all in a family in Nam Can district, were hospitalized with symptoms like coughs and high fever after they consumed chickens last week.

The victims were immediately quarantined with their samples submitted to laboratory for testing, Kien said.

Nguyen Huu Minh, deputy head of the animal health department of Soc Trang reported two people in My Tu district had difficulty breathing after eating chicken.

He added bird flu had yet to spread to Soc Trang and the patients had reportedly eaten healthy poultry.

Minh said the results from tests run on the two had not yet been received.

To date, bird flu has resurfaced in 10 Vietnamese communes in six districts in Ca Mau, Bac Lieu and Hau Giang provinces.

Source: Tuoi Tre ? Translated by Tuong Nhi

 

[Gnosis]

Re: Thousands of ducks die in Vietnam

I have a suspect in the unexplained deaths of these ducks.
November 28, 2006

"I hate the Queen, I hate this country"
The nature of the incident is surprising. The utter contempt for Queen and country, and the sense of entitlement ("I am a Muslim, I am fasting, I needed to eat.") is not. "Muslim jailed for killing British queen's swan to break Ramadan fast," from AFP:

LONDON -- A Muslim man who was so hungry while fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan that he killed a swan to eat was jailed for two months at a court in Britain Wednesday.
Shamsu Miah, 52, killed the mute swan at a boating pond in the north Welsh seaside resort of Llandudno September 25 - only the second day of fasting in Britain.
All mute swans in Britain belong to the sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II, an historical quirk dating from the twelfth century.
When challenged by police, Miah said: "I am a Muslim, I am fasting, I needed to eat."
Llandudno Magistrates Court heard that Miah had blood on his shirt and white feathers in his beard.
Prosecutor Jim Neary said: "When interviewed he said, 'I was hungry, I had to eat the swan so I killed it, I stabbed it. I did nothing wrong, it was just a bird, I needed to eat'."
"The officers told him the swan was the property of the queen and he replied, 'I hate the queen, I hate this country'."
Judge Andrew Shaw told Miah: "You killed a swan at night. It was a cruel and reprehensible act.
"I don't know how it died; there seems to be some speculation that you bit it but I accept you killed it with a knife.
"It is a taboo act and the only sentence I can pass is one of imprisonment."
Miah had pleaded guilty to intentionally killing a wild bird and possessing a bladed article.
He was released from custody having already served his two-month sentence while on remand.