Asia - Vietnam culls more bird flu-infected poultry

Published: July 6, 2005

Source : People's Daily Online

Over 7,000 ducks infected with bird flu viruses in Vietnam's central Quang Tri province were culled this week, according to Vietnam News Agency on Wednesday. For the same reason, another over 10,000 infected waterfowls in the province were culled late last month. The country determined to cull all infected waterfowls raised in large scale, and isolate areas having sick poultry bred in a small scale to prevent bird flu spread, since some 10 million out of 40 million waterfowls in the country, mainly ducks, face high risk of being infected with bird flu viruses, including the H5N1 strain. Besides, Vietnam will start vaccinating fowls in northern Nam Dinh province and southern Tien Giang province on a trial basis early next month. The Vietnamese Health Ministry has confirmed that a total of 60 local people from the country's 23 localities had been infected with H5N1 since late December 2004, of whom 18 died.

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