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Vietnam to kill all poultry in bird flu-infected areas

Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has proposed to destroy all fowls in bird flu-hit localities within a radius of three kilometers from centers of the outbreak.


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Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has proposed to destroy all fowls in bird flu-hit localities within a radius of three kilometers from centers of the outbreak.

The ministry has also sought for a ban on transport of poultry within a radius of 10 kilometers, and suggested that the infected areas should be allowed to raise fowls again after three months ofbeing disinfected, local newspaper New Hanoi reported on Tuesday.

The ministry has also proposed that the government should grant an addition of more than 2.5 billion Vietnamese dong (160,000 US dollars) for prevention activities such as sample testing, preventive medicines and wages for staff of veterinary checkpoints.

By Monday, 18 cities and provinces in the northern and southernregions of Vietnam had been stricken by bird flu, which has so farinfected over 2.3 million fowls out of a total of 245 million poultry, mostly chickens, according to the ministry.

A report submitted to the World Health Organization on Jan. 17 by the ministry said some 2 million fowls had either died or been killed in Vietnam.

To date, the country has reported five confirmed cases of humaninfections of H5N1, the virus found in sick chickens.

Source: Xinhua




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