VIETNAM - Bird flu hits one more Vietnam's province

[Theresa42]

Bird flu hits one more Vietnam's province
2007-10-25

HANOI, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- Bird flu has recently stricken Vietnam's central Quang Tri province when it infected a flock of 600 ducks in the locality, local newspaper Labor on Thursday quoted a local veterinary agency as reporting.

The disease killed 290 ducks in the flock raised by a household in Gio Linh district, the Department of Animal Health under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said, noting that specimens from the affected poultry have been tested positive to bird flu virus strain H5N1.

On Oct. 11, the department reported that bird flu outbreaks reoccurred in the country's southern Tra Vinh province.

Vietnam is focusing on intensifying disease surveillance, monitoring of poultry raising, transporting and trading, and vaccination among fowls nationwide.

Bird flu outbreaks in Vietnam, starting in December 2003, have killed and led to the forced culling of dozens of millions of fowls in the country, said the department.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-10/25/content_6941719.htm

 

[Sally Furniss]

Re: VIETNAM - Bird flu hits one more Vietnam's province

HANOI, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Bird flu has killed poultry in a Vietnamese village on the Chinese border, the third outbreak of the highly infectious virus in the country this month, Hanoi's Aninal Health Department said.

"Tests on the samples from the dead poultry were positive to the bird flu virus H5N1," it said in a statement seen on Friday.

About 560 ducks and chicken were infected in the village of Lung Na in the Trung Khanh district of Vietnam's northern province of Cao Bang,, the statement said.

It made no mention of human infections by the virus, which has killed four of the seven Vietnamese who have caught it this year, taking the country's death toll since late 2003 to 46.
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The virus has already struck duck farms this month in the central province of Quang Tri and Tra Vinh in the south despite a major vaccination campaigns.

Agriculture Minister Cao Duc Phat said earlier this month bird flu would return among unvaccinated birds, especially as the weather cooled in late autumn and winter in northern provinces.

Vaccinations are under way in 40 of Vietnam's 64 provinces and 62.65 million birds have been injected, nearly one third of the poultry stock, the Agriculture Ministry said.

Globally, the H5N1 virus has killed 204 people out of 332 known cases, with most of the deaths in Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and Egypt, the World Health Organisation said.


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