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VietNamNet Bridge ? According to the Vet Department, 30 dead unvaccinated ducks in Truong Khuong B Hamlet, Truong Xuan A Village, Co Do Town, Can Tho City, were tested H5N1 positive on January 12.
Prohibiting ducks to be moved to other villages
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr. Cao Duc Phat has requested provinces in the Mekong Delta region to prohibit people to move duck flocks from one village, town or province to another village, town or province until bird flu is stamped out.
Minister Cao Duc Phat?s Directive 190 issued on January 17 7/1 also requests immediate vaccination for all duck flocks. Ducks in infected villages have to be locked up. Healthy and vaccinated flocks in the villages where bird flu has been eliminated, or where there is no bird flu at all, are allowed to run on the fields within the villages? boundaries. All activities related to the killing of ducks, and duck meat and egg sales must follow the ministry?s regulations.
The ministered asked chairmen of provincial people?s committees to guide towns and villages to monitor closely the movement of duck flocks, and discipline sternly whoever intentionally violates the directive.
The provinces are also requested to set up stations on key roads and water ways to monitor 24/24 the inter-province transportation of poultry. Poultry killing and selling activities are to be constantly supervised.
Local authorities must co-ordinate with the police to find and stamp out smuggling centers, and guide border villages to persuade people not to participate in poultry smuggling and to expose violators.
In addition, propaganda activities should focus on mobilizing people to lock up and vaccinate poultry, as well as constantly clean and sterilize coops, and limit contacts with strange poultry, wild birds and strangers.
As for consumers, they should be warned not to eat dead ducks, meat and eggs which aren?t cooked well (e.g, omelets, red bones and meat), and water animals? blood curds; not to use knives, chopping blocks and containers which have contacted raw meat and eggs in processing cooked food; to constantly wash hands with soap, and avoid contact with injected poultry without any protection equipment (gloves, hats, glasses, coats and boots, etc.).
According to the Vet Department, bird flu is happening in 41 villages, 18 districts and 8 provinces. The total number of dead infected fowls is nearly 19.000.
The Vet Department has recently asked the HCM City area?s vet centre and the vet boards of Long An and Binh Duong to investigate the possibility of poultry?s immunity to the bird flu vaccine. With two shots for every fowl, the protection rate should be 70 %.
Thuy Anh
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VietNamNet Bridge ? According to the Vet Department, 30 dead unvaccinated ducks in Truong Khuong B Hamlet, Truong Xuan A Village, Co Do Town, Can Tho City, were tested H5N1 positive on January 12.
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Thus, for the last 21 days, bird flu has spread to 8 provinces: Ca Mau, Bac Lieu, Hau Giang, Vinh Long, Kien Giang, Tra Vinh, Soc Trăng and Can Tho City. </td></tr> <tr> <td class="Image"></td></tr></tbody></table>
Prohibiting ducks to be moved to other villages
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr. Cao Duc Phat has requested provinces in the Mekong Delta region to prohibit people to move duck flocks from one village, town or province to another village, town or province until bird flu is stamped out.
Minister Cao Duc Phat?s Directive 190 issued on January 17 7/1 also requests immediate vaccination for all duck flocks. Ducks in infected villages have to be locked up. Healthy and vaccinated flocks in the villages where bird flu has been eliminated, or where there is no bird flu at all, are allowed to run on the fields within the villages? boundaries. All activities related to the killing of ducks, and duck meat and egg sales must follow the ministry?s regulations.
The ministered asked chairmen of provincial people?s committees to guide towns and villages to monitor closely the movement of duck flocks, and discipline sternly whoever intentionally violates the directive.
The provinces are also requested to set up stations on key roads and water ways to monitor 24/24 the inter-province transportation of poultry. Poultry killing and selling activities are to be constantly supervised.
Local authorities must co-ordinate with the police to find and stamp out smuggling centers, and guide border villages to persuade people not to participate in poultry smuggling and to expose violators.
In addition, propaganda activities should focus on mobilizing people to lock up and vaccinate poultry, as well as constantly clean and sterilize coops, and limit contacts with strange poultry, wild birds and strangers.
As for consumers, they should be warned not to eat dead ducks, meat and eggs which aren?t cooked well (e.g, omelets, red bones and meat), and water animals? blood curds; not to use knives, chopping blocks and containers which have contacted raw meat and eggs in processing cooked food; to constantly wash hands with soap, and avoid contact with injected poultry without any protection equipment (gloves, hats, glasses, coats and boots, etc.).
According to the Vet Department, bird flu is happening in 41 villages, 18 districts and 8 provinces. The total number of dead infected fowls is nearly 19.000.
The Vet Department has recently asked the HCM City area?s vet centre and the vet boards of Long An and Binh Duong to investigate the possibility of poultry?s immunity to the bird flu vaccine. With two shots for every fowl, the protection rate should be 70 %.
Thuy Anh
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