Bird flu hits north, south

LookAtVietnam – Avian flu cases (A/H5N1) have been reported in the provinces of Thai Nguyen and Ca Mau, where hundreds of chickens have died.

The southern province of Ca Mau and Thai Nguyen Province in the north have set up quarantine stations in order to strictly check the transporting and slaughtering of chickens.

Hoang Van Nam, deputy head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Veterinary Department, yesterday (December 15) said that if the localities did not vaccinate and supervise their flocks of poultry, then avian flu would be at a high risk to spread nationwide.

Nam said that the dead chickens had tested positive for avian flu and nearly 5,000 chickens in the provinces were incinerated in order to prevent the spread of the disease.

The southern province of Ca Mau and Thai Nguyen Province in the north have set up quarantine stations in order to strictly check the transporting and slaughtering of chickens.

The Veterinary Department allocated 1 million vaccine shots in order to help the provinces of Ca Mau and Thai Nguyen properly medicate their flocks of chickens.

Deputy head of the ministry’s Livestock Breeding Department Nguyen Thanh Son asked localities nationwide to actively prepare for avian flu.

He also asked localities to improve their management concerning the transportation and slaughtering of chickens, especially with regards to the increase in demand that will occur during the Tet holiday.

VietNamNet/Viet Nam News