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Vietnam - Mekong Delta warns for new outbreaks

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High risk of bird flu in north, central region, warns ministry​
(18-05-2007)​
HCM CITY ? Provinces across the country, including those in the Mekong River Delta, could face another bird flu outbreak during the summer, according to the deputy minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.​
Bui Ba Bong said the Animal Health Department recently issued a warning that bird flu could erupt in the northern and central provinces of Ha Tay, Hai Duong, Hung Yen, Thai Binh, Nam Dinh, Thanh Hoa and Ha Tinh.​
The warning came after an outbreak of bird flu in the northern central province of Nghe An last week. Blood samples from 1,400 dead ducks tested positive for the H5N1 virus.​
The ministry has told provincial authorities to step up oversight of quarantine teams and closely monitor the sale, transport and processing of poultry products in the country and at border checkpoints.​
He said the agriculture ministry would receive another 100 million doses of vaccines from China for a major vaccination campaign to begin soon that would include disinfecting farms and surrounding areas.​
Bong said failure by farmers to implement regulations set by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development had led to the outbreak in Nghe An Province.​
Bird flu in Nghe An broke out, he said, not only because imported breeder fowl had been infected with the H5N1 virus but also because new-born poultry had not been vaccinated.​
The Mekong River Delta region is also on the list of areas most vulnerable to a new bird flu outbreak because of the upcoming harvest of the summer-autumn rice crop, which would attract roaming, free-range ducks.​


Breeding facilities, he said, were also to blame because they had not met sanitary or quarantine standards.


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Bird flu emerges more easily in cooler weather, but H5N1-infected waterfowl can live in temperatures of up to 37 degrees Celsius, Bong said. ? VNS




http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=04SOC180507

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