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Vietnam reissues bird flu poultry breeding ban
HANOI (Thomson Financial) - Vietnam's prime minister has reissued a
poorly-observed ban on poultry breeding in cities, the government said
Thursday, amid fears of new bird flu outbreaks in the coming winter season.
Nguyen Tan Dung also urged a shift from backyard farms to industrial
poultry raising and hatching, and he urged local authorities to raise public
vigilance about the killer virus, the government said on its official website.
Vietnam has reported only one recent bird flu outbreak in southern Tra Vinh
province this month, but experts warn the virus might come back in coming
months.
"We are worried a new epidemic will spread nationwide because during this
season outbreaks have happened in previous years," Bui Quang Anh, head of
the national animal health department, told the Tin Tuc newspaper.
Vietnam controlled the H5N1 virus with mass culls and vaccination
campaigns when it was first hit by bird flu starting in 2003. In May this year,
avian influenza again spread to 18 out of 64 provinces and municipalities.
Four people have been killed by bird flu this year in Vietnam, bringing the
human death toll in the country to 46 since the virus first broke out.
afp/zr
http://orange.advfn.com/news_Vietnam-reissues-bird-flu-poultry-breeding-ban_22794578.html
Vietnam reissues bird flu poultry breeding ban
HANOI (Thomson Financial) - Vietnam's prime minister has reissued a
poorly-observed ban on poultry breeding in cities, the government said
Thursday, amid fears of new bird flu outbreaks in the coming winter season.
Nguyen Tan Dung also urged a shift from backyard farms to industrial
poultry raising and hatching, and he urged local authorities to raise public
vigilance about the killer virus, the government said on its official website.
Vietnam has reported only one recent bird flu outbreak in southern Tra Vinh
province this month, but experts warn the virus might come back in coming
months.
"We are worried a new epidemic will spread nationwide because during this
season outbreaks have happened in previous years," Bui Quang Anh, head of
the national animal health department, told the Tin Tuc newspaper.
Vietnam controlled the H5N1 virus with mass culls and vaccination
campaigns when it was first hit by bird flu starting in 2003. In May this year,
avian influenza again spread to 18 out of 64 provinces and municipalities.
Four people have been killed by bird flu this year in Vietnam, bringing the
human death toll in the country to 46 since the virus first broke out.
afp/zr
http://orange.advfn.com/news_Vietnam-reissues-bird-flu-poultry-breeding-ban_22794578.html