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Bird flu spreads in southern Vietnam

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Bird flu has spread to eight of the 12 localities in the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam and the country has yet to find an effective way to treat human flu type A, which is suspected to have a link with bird flu.

Meanwhile, nine cities and provinces in the country's northern region have reported flu type A infections. The disease has killed13 local people, including 11 children. The virus H5N1 has been found in infected chickens and flu victims.

Bird flu spread has forced Ho Chi Minh City to announce a temporary ban on poultry from the Mekong Delta, local newspaper Vietnam Agriculture reported Friday.

The Mekong Delta province of An Giang has also asked chicken and duck traders to stop doing business temporarily. It plans to ban selling and buying the fowls soon, after detecting 47,000 poultry dying of flu so far.

By Thursday, Long An, one of the first two localities in the country that have bird flu epidemic, had reported 960,000 dead chickens. It and the other province, Tien Giang, are spending 5,000 Vietnamese dong (0.3 US dollars) to buy each sick chicken for incineration.

The delta is home to 33.7 million poultry, mostly chickens, ducks and quails. Tien Giang alone has 5 million fowls.

Although bird flu is spreading in both southern and northern regions, Vietnam is still unable to work out an effective guidanceon treating flu type A.

Source: Xinhua

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