Vietnam: Outbreaks in poultry Mar 7+

[Sally Furniss]

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/conditions/03/07/birdflu.vietnam.ap/

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Bird flu has struck two chicken farms in Vietnam's capital Hanoi, animal-health officials said Wednesday, marking the latest outbreaks reported in recent weeks across the country.

Several chicks died suddenly on two farms in the rural district of Dong Anh on Sunday and authorities have slaughtered the remaining 1,950 chicks, said Hoang Gia Tuc, director of the district animal-health station. None of the chicks, aged 10 to 20 days old, were vaccinated.

Test results from a government laboratory showed the chicks were infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, said Hoang Van Nam, deputy director of the Department of Animal Health.

Tuc said local animal health workers disinfected the two farms and banned the movement of poultry to and from the area.

Bird-flu outbreaks have been reported in two northern provinces of Hai Duong and Ha Tay recently. Outbreaks were also reported last week in the southern province of Vinh Long.

Vietnam went without reporting a bird-flu outbreak for a year until the disease killed and forced the slaughter of about 40,000 birds in eight southern Mekong Delta provinces since January.

The H5N1 bird-flu virus has killed at least 167 people worldwide, including 42 in Vietnam, since it began ravaging poultry stocks across Asia in late 2003, according to the World Health Organization.

It remains hard for people to catch, but experts worry the virus might mutate into a form that passes easily among humans, potentially igniting a pandemic. So far, most human cases have been traced to contact with infected birds.

 

[Niko]

Re: Vietnam: Outbreaks in poultry Mar 7+

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</td></tr> </tbody></table> Hanoi - Bird flu has killed more than 1 000 chickens at two farms on the outskirts of Hanoi, the country's animal health authority said on Wednesday.

Health workers slaughtered scores of chickens at the farms in Dong Anh district after tests confirmed that the H5N1 virus had killed a total of 1 150 birds, the animal health department said in its daily report.

"The Hanoi animal health department has coordinated with the local authority to destroy the remaining poultry, disinfect the outbreak area and closely monitor poultry and humans," the report said.

Vietnam has had no human cases of bird flu since November 2005, but the virus, which first arrived in late 2003, returned to poultry in the south late last year.

More infections were detected in ducks in the southern province of Vinh Long and in chickens in the northern provinces of Hai Duong and Ha Tay in the past three weeks.

On February 27, all 550 chickens were slaughtered on a farm in Ha Tay province, the largest poultry supplier to Hanoi, officials said.

In late February, 10 500 infected chickens were killed in Hai Duong province, east of Hanoi.

Agriculture Minister Cao Duc Phat said last week the H5N1 virus existed throughout Vietnam, even though poultry vaccination had helped prevent its spread.

Vietnam is expected to start its next phase of vaccinating poultry in the second half of March and will allow the resumption of raising and hatching waterfowl from March 15.

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[hawkeye]

VIETNAM - Avian flu returns to Ha Tay

VIETNAM - Avian flu returns to Ha Tay

Avian flu returns to Ha Tay

(07-03-2007)

HA NOI ? Avian flu has been reported in a village in Ha Tay Province, 20km from Ha Noi, the Animal Health Department reported yesterday.

The department?s director Bui Quang Anh said test results showed H5N1 virus on disease samples of 550 dead chickens in Canh Nau Village, Thach That District.

The chickens, which died in late February, were unvaccinated and aged between one and two months old.

Ha Tay is the second northern province, after Hai Duong, to report the return of avian flu. Neither reported poultry sickness or death last year. The local animal health department killed the sick birds, sterilised the surrounding environment and closely supervised to check for the epidemic in humans and poultry. At yesterday?s meeting in Ha Noi, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat called on localities to stay vigilant on the epidemic. ? VNS

 

[yielddude]

Re: VIETNAM - Avian flu returns to Ha Tay

Re: VIETNAM - Avian flu returns to Ha Tay

Bird flu erupts in Vietnam south; total 5 provinces infected


The local animal health department in southern Vietnam?s Can Tho City Thursday reported 100 ducks from a flock of 500 died of bird flu?s H5N1 strain.
The flock in Co Do district has been culled and the site disinfected.

The same day, Hanoi authorities suspended Hoang Gia Tuc from his post as head of the animal department in Dong Anh district after the disease broke out there.

Currently, the disease has touched five localities: Vinh Long province, Can Tho City in the south and Hai Duong, Ha Tay provinces, and Hanoi in the north.

Reported by Quang Duan - Translated by A.N.O.N

http://www.thanhniennews.com/healthy/?catid=8&newsid=25861

 

[Susie]

Vietnam isolates Hanoi bird flu site

Vietnam isolates Hanoi bird flu site

Vietnam isolates Hanoi bird flu site
(AFP)

9 March 2007

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HANOI - Vietnamese health workers Friday moved to contain a bird flu outbreak in the capital Hanoi as the H5N1 virus spread to a fifth location within three weeks, in the country?s southern Mekong Delta.


Donning protective suits and face masks, workers in Hanoi sprayed disinfectant at several poultry farms on the northern outskirts of the city where 2,000 chickens died of the virus or were destroyed earlier this week.

Police and officials manned 24-hour checkpoints set up since Monday leading into the Hau Duong hamlet in suburban Dong Anh district to quarantine the site of the outbreak, where another 2,000 birds have since been vaccinated.

?No poultry and poultry products are allowed to be transported in or out of the area,? local veterinarian Do Van Thanh told AFP. ?Local residents must wear masks if they come out of their houses.?

Health officials warn of a heightened risk as the killer virus, like other respiratory diseases, spreads faster in the cold winter months, aided by the fact that people tend to spend more time together in confined spaces.

Also on Friday, authorities said bird flu had spread to a fifth location in Vietnam since late February, hitting a flock of two-month-old ducks in Can Tho, a city 170 kilometres (100 miles) southwest of Ho Chi Minh City.

About 100 of the unvaccinated ducks died of the H5N1 strain Wednesday and 400 more birds were destroyed, said the national animal health department, part of the agriculture ministry.

The virus has also been reported in the northern provinces of Ha Tay and Hai Duong and in the southern Vinh Long province in recent weeks, following a spate of outbreaks in the south in December and January.

The H5N1 strain hit Vietnam in late 2003, killing or forcing the culling of millions of birds.

Over the next two years bird flu killed 42 people in Vietnam, but no new human cases have been reported there since November 2005.