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VIETNAM TO SET UP ANTI-BIRD FLU TASK FORCES
Source: Quan Doi Nhan Dan (Thanhnien News)
August 24, 2006
Vietnam will form anti-bird flu task forces to stamp out any outbreaks timely and comprehensively, local media reported Thursday.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Bui Ba Bong was quoted by People's Army newspaper as saying that when an outbreak was detected, the task forces would mobilize all sources to isolate the affected area and contain the disease.
Vietnam has been on high alert of bird flu?s return in the coming time amid current outbreaks in some regional countries.
The Southeast Asian country was planning to establish hotlines at both central and local levels to quickly receive any bird flu-related information, and offered VND500,000 (US$31.4) to those who reported outbreaks, the newspaper said.
Vietnam has recently tightened up its management and inspection of transport, slaughtering, trade and import of fowls and related products, including placing a temporary ban on import of live poultry and related products from countries hit by bird flu, enforcing the existing ban on raising poultry in inner areas of major cities and hatching waterfowls nationwide, and continuing bird flu vaccination.
The country has recently completed this year's first batch of bird flu vaccination among fowls nationwide and plans to finish the second batch by late November.
The country has so far this year vaccinated some 134 million poultry.
Testing 14,161 specimens from vaccinated chickens and ducks indicated that more than 75 percent of the fowls have developed capacity of not contracting bird flu virus strain H5, according to the Department of Animal Health under the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Bird flu outbreaks, starting in the country in December 2003, have killed and led to the forced culling of dozens of millions of fowls.
The last outbreak of bird flu among poultry in Vietnam was in December 2005, said the department.
Bird flu has killed at least 141 people in 10 countries since December 2003, according to WHO statistics, and Indonesia has the highest fatality cases, followed by Vietnam.
The other eight countries are Azerbaijan, Cambodia, China, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Thailand and Turkey.
Source: www.thanhniennews.com/healthy/?catid=8&newsid=19234
Source: Quan Doi Nhan Dan (Thanhnien News)
August 24, 2006
Vietnam will form anti-bird flu task forces to stamp out any outbreaks timely and comprehensively, local media reported Thursday.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Bui Ba Bong was quoted by People's Army newspaper as saying that when an outbreak was detected, the task forces would mobilize all sources to isolate the affected area and contain the disease.
Vietnam has been on high alert of bird flu?s return in the coming time amid current outbreaks in some regional countries.
The Southeast Asian country was planning to establish hotlines at both central and local levels to quickly receive any bird flu-related information, and offered VND500,000 (US$31.4) to those who reported outbreaks, the newspaper said.
Vietnam has recently tightened up its management and inspection of transport, slaughtering, trade and import of fowls and related products, including placing a temporary ban on import of live poultry and related products from countries hit by bird flu, enforcing the existing ban on raising poultry in inner areas of major cities and hatching waterfowls nationwide, and continuing bird flu vaccination.
The country has recently completed this year's first batch of bird flu vaccination among fowls nationwide and plans to finish the second batch by late November.
The country has so far this year vaccinated some 134 million poultry.
Testing 14,161 specimens from vaccinated chickens and ducks indicated that more than 75 percent of the fowls have developed capacity of not contracting bird flu virus strain H5, according to the Department of Animal Health under the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Bird flu outbreaks, starting in the country in December 2003, have killed and led to the forced culling of dozens of millions of fowls.
The last outbreak of bird flu among poultry in Vietnam was in December 2005, said the department.
Bird flu has killed at least 141 people in 10 countries since December 2003, according to WHO statistics, and Indonesia has the highest fatality cases, followed by Vietnam.
The other eight countries are Azerbaijan, Cambodia, China, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Thailand and Turkey.
Source: www.thanhniennews.com/healthy/?catid=8&newsid=19234