Vietnam: Bird Flu Outbreaks in Poultry

[Gert van der Hoek]

Chicks die en mass in Vietnam's southern province

August 24, 2007

A number of chicks raised by a household in Vietnam's southern Dong Thap province died of being suspected to have contracted bird flu, according to local newspaper Vietnam Agriculture on Friday.

The local Veterinary Bureau has culled over 100 ill chicks in the flock in Lap Vo district. Specimens from the ill fowls are being tested for bird flu virus strain H5N1.

Bird flu now is hitting two communes in the two northern provinces of Dien Bien and Cao Bang, according to the Department of Animal Health under the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Vietnam: Bird Flu Outbreaks in Poultry

Bird flu hits poultry in two Vietnam provinces

HANOI, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Bird flu has spread to two more provinces in Vietnam, killing hundreds of chickens and ducks, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday.

The outbreak of H5N1 in the northern province of Thai Nguyen and Dong Thap to the south brought to four the number of provinces on the government's current bird flu watchlist.

Vietnam has 64 provinces.

A total of 150 ducks and 35 chickens fell sick on Wednesday in Thai Nguyen, 80 km (50 miles) north of Hanoi, and tests have confirmed they had the H5N1 virus, the ministry's Animal Health Department said in a report.

The virus also struck a farm in the southern Mekong delta province of Dong Thap where 250 chickens were found dead on Sunday, it said.

Bird flu has infected seven people in Vietnam so far this year, four of whom have died, bringing the death toll since late 2003 to 46, the government said.

Globally, the H5N1 virus has killed 195 people out of 322 known cases, according to a tally of the World Health Organisation. Hundreds of millions of birds have died or been slaughtered.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Vietnam: Bird Flu Outbreaks in Poultry

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Bird flu has spread to another Vietnamese province, with an H5N1 outbreak hitting a flock of young ducks on a Mekong Delta farm.

Vietnam reports new bird flu outbreak

The animal health department in Hanoi says about 150 ducklings were infected with the virus, leading to the culling of the entire flock of 450 unvaccinated waterfowl in Tra Cu district, Tra Vinh province.

Vietnam has now placed four of its 64 provinces and municipalities on its bird flu watchlist, also including Cao Bang near China and the northern mountainous provinces of Thai Nguyen and Dong Thap.

Once the country worst hit by bird flu, Vietnam has controlled the virus with mass culls and vaccination campaigns.

But avian influenza came back strongly this year, spreading to 18 provinces and municipalities in May.

This year, four people have been killed by bird flu, bringing the human death toll to 46 since the virus broke out in the country in late 2003.

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