Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Bird flu hits Vietnamese poultry farms

Viet Nam News reports that influenza A H5N1 has killed hundreds of chickens in Thai Nguyen and Ca Mau provinces.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development official said the outbreak underscores the need for widespread vaccination of poultry, and it issued 1 million vaccine doses to the provinces. Authorities have incinerated close to 5,000 chickens to contain the virus, the news agency reports.

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