Posts Tagged ‘ Animal Health ’

Bird flu outbreak strikes three provinces 

September 20, 2011
Bird flu outbreak strikes three provinces 

A man carrying chickens on National Highway 1 in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Chanh District. Bird flu has hit flocks of fowl in three of Vietnam’s north-central provinces over the last two weeks, the Department of Animal Health announced on Tuesday (September 13). Hoang Van Nam, the department chief, said at a meeting of [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Health | Comments Off

Foot-and-mouth disease hits 15 Vietnam provinces 

January 6, 2011
Foot-and-mouth disease hits 15 Vietnam provinces 

A health worker sterilizes a buffalo in Bac Kan Province. The foot-and-mouth disease has stricken 15 provinces in Vietnam so far. As of Tuesday, the foot-and-mouth epidemic has stricken 15 northern and central provinces of Vietnam, sickening thousands of cattle, according to the Department of Animal Health.   Affected provinces include Yen Bai, Quang Ngai, [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Health | Comments Off

Poor farmers given diseased cows as welfare support 

December 15, 2010
Poor farmers given diseased cows as welfare support 

An animal health official checks a cow in Quang Ngai Province Many poor households in the central region’s Quang Ngai Province have discovered the cows they were given as poverty support are infected with the foot-and-mouth disease, VnExpress said Monday.   Animal health officials in Tinh Hoa Commune, Son Tinh District have been busy in recent [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Social | Comments Off

Seafood sector lacks quality breeds

December 29, 2009
Seafood sector lacks quality breeds

Despite being a large export industry with annual turnover of over US$4bil, Vietnam’s seafood sector cannot ensure quality breeds to maintain sustainable production . . . Vinh Long Province needs around 1.3 billion tra and basa fish breeds per year but local farms provide only 62%.Ninh Thuan Province has around 1,400 breed production farms that [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Business, News | Comments Off

Bird flu returns after 6 months of quiet

November 3, 2009
Bird flu returns after 6 months of quiet

Vietnamese animal health authorities officially recognized the resurgence of bird flu in the northern Dien Bien Province on Sunday, a half a year since the country brought the deadly virus under control. The province Animal Health Department said tests on sick and dead chicken at nine farmers’ houses in Dien Bien District between October 21 [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Health, News | Comments Off

Vietnam reports bird flu outbreak among poultry

November 2, 2009
Vietnam reports bird flu outbreak among poultry

A farmer unloads chickens at a poultry market in the northern Vietnamese province of Ha Tay Vietnam has announced the reemergence of bird flu among its poultry after six months with no reported outbreaks of the H5N1 virus, the country’s animal health department said. The infected poultry were reported in nine farming households in the [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Health, News | Comments Off

Animal health officials develop cold feet over frozen meat

October 28, 2009
Animal health officials develop cold feet over frozen meat

LookAtVietnam – Imported meat is being tested loosely in Ho Chi Minh City with officials not following due process on account of it being too cold.  Around two weeks ago at the Cat Lai Port in District 2, animal health officials took several boxes placed near the door of a container for testing, ignoring rules [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Animal health officials develop cold feet over frozen meat

October 27, 2009
Animal health officials develop cold feet over frozen meat

Chicken legs were found with pus in a cold store in Ho Chi Minh City. Imported meat is being tested loosely in Ho Chi Minh City with officials not following due process on account of it being too cold. Around two weeks ago at the Cat Lai Port in District 2, animal health officials took [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Health, News | Comments Off

Ministry to check egg origins

October 21, 2009
Ministry to check egg origins

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will start to regularly check imported eggs sold in the local market. Inspectors check imported eggs sold at markets in Ha Noi. Samples will be checked to determine whether they have been bleached.There have been reports that imported eggs with brown shell are soaked in a toxic bleach [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in News, Social | Comments Off

Tons of dirty meat imports held up in HCMC

October 16, 2009
Tons of dirty meat imports held up in HCMC

Firms that imported hundreds of tons of substandard meat products this summer have yet to get rid of the goods and authorities still haven’t confirmed whether or not some of the meat was sold in Vietnam. The Animal Health Center No.6, which manages animal health conditions in the southern region, said that more than 320 [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Health, News | Comments Off

Feature

Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

By

Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...