Vietnam: Gov?t livid about bird flu recurrence despite vaccination

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Hopefully punishment will only be against those clearly breaking the law, e.g illegal transport, quarantine restrictions etc.

Gov?t livid about bird flu recurrence despite vaccination


The Vietnamese government has instructed agencies concerned to investigate and punish those responsible for the recurrence of bird flu in a southern province despite a mass inoculation program.

In a dispatch last week Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat told the ministry?s Agriculture Project, the Vietnam Breeding Corporation, and the Veterinary Bureau to find out why vaccinated chickens had died en masse in Dong Thap last week.

The investigation findings had be reported back by July 30 at the latest, he added.

Bird flu resurfaced in Dong Thap last Wednesday, infecting a flock of 400 chickens in Tan Hoi Trung commune, and killing 20.

But they had been reported inoculated under a national program.

After the disease broke out the Luong My shareholding company, which had been entrusted with the mass vaccination campaign, admitted its responsibility for ?inadequate inoculations?.

It promised to compensate affected chicken farmers.

A ministry official warned this could undermine public confidence in the project.

Tests conducted by the Veterinary Center Region VII have found that around 170 chickens in the diseased flock in Tan Hoi Trung did not have antibodies against the H5N1 virus, suggesting they had not been inoculated.

Source: Lao Dong ? Translated by An Dien

 

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<TABLE cellSpacing=3 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=thanh vAlign=top align=left> Flu Occurs in Vaccinated Chicks in Dong Thap Tuesday , Jul 24, 2007</TD></TR><TR><TD class=tintop_text vAlign=top align=left>Fresh outbreaks of bird flu have occurred in flocks of vaccinated chicks in Cao Lanh and Lai Vung Districts of the Mekong Delta province Dong Thap.

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</TD></TR><TR><TD class=Image>A vet culls the diseased poultry and sterilizes the infected area</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>​

The vaccinated chicks were provided for poor families to help alleviate their poverty; however, the deadly disease attacked the flock and local vets have had to cull the diseased poultry.
Chairpersons of the Women?s Association of Tan Phuoc village and Dinh Hoa village (Lai Vung district), Vo Thi Kiem and Thai Thi Van, were devastated by the news.
They had hoped that their poor association members burdened with debt could settle their financial difficulties by raising and selling the flock of poultry.
Engineer Truong Thi Nen, head of Lai Vung Agriculture and Rural Development Department, said that bird flu had not recurred in the district for years; this outbreak of desease in vaccinated chicks has haunted local authorities. New protocols state that close monitoring of poultry must follow all vaccinations.
It is now extremely important to find out what went wrong, and to find the cause of the disease in the vaccinated chicks, which had received Luong My Company's vaccine, said Deputy Director of Dong Thap?s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Duong Nghia Quoc.
Worry was also expressed about the number of farmers that have been selling off all their poultry for VND20, 000 per kilo because they fear that otherwise they will lose all their money if their flocks become infected. Local authorities must now try their best to curb this behavior.
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http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/National/2007/7/57088/

 

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Re: Vietnam: Gov?t livid about bird flu recurrence despite vaccination

<TABLE cellSpacing=3 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=thanh vAlign=top align=left>A report from last week Bird Flu Still Threatens Northern Highlands Wednesday, Jul 18, 2007</TD></TR><TR><TD class=tintop_text vAlign=top align=left>The recent outbreak of bird flu in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien shows that the H5N1 virus is still present in the area, a government official said yesterday.

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</TD></TR><TR><TD class=Image>Vaccination plays an important role in preventing and controlling avian influenza.</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>​

Fortunately, no fresh outbreak of bird flu has been reported in any previously infected provinces in the past seven days, Hoang Van Nam, deputy director of the Veterinary Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, told the National Steering Committee for Bird Flu Prevention and Control.
Also present at the regular meeting in Ha Noi was Tony Forman from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, who stressed the importance of vaccination in preventing and controlling avian influenza.
Mr. Forman added that poultry farmers should adhere to the national vaccination program as well as the regulations governing incubation and sterilization procedures.
He affirmed the FAO?s support for the Vietnamese government?s measures to stamp out the disease, including closing incubation farms that fall short of the mandatory veterinary standards and culling unvaccinated flocks of birds.:tiphat:
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http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/Health/2007/7/56996/