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On Friday, March 12th, we learned of Vietnam’s 4th confirmed H5N1 infection of the year, a 25-year-old woman who lived in Hanoi (see Vietnam Reports New H5N1 Case).
Today, the near-by province of Bac Ninh is reporting an outbreak of bird flu in poultry in Nam Son Commune.
Roughly a half dozen provinces have recently reported outbreaks, and veterinary officials have expressed concern that more outbreaks are likely.
Vietnam, Egypt, Bangladesh, India and Indonesia remain hotspots for avian flu.
There are other regions of the world where surveillance and reporting is less efficient or open, and our knowledge of the extent of their bird flu problems is negligible.
Places like China, Myanmar, Cambodia and North Korea.
Today’s report is a reminder that the H5N1 virus continues to circulate, even in countries that have made massive efforts to contain it.
This report from the Voice of Vietnam.
Updated : 11:20 AM, 03/15/2010
The Bac Ninh provincial People’s Committee on March 14 announced the occurrence of bird flu in Nam Son commune, Bac Ninh city. Previously, the poultry of a farmer family in Da Cau hamlet of this commune died in mass numbers.
The provincial animal health department said farmer Dam Thi Chinh raised 400 heads of fowl, which had been vaccinated for four months but died massively on the night of March 11. They first showed signs of sickness on March 10.
The veterinary agency inspected the family’s farm on March 12 and concluded that Ms Chinh’s poultry had signs of being infected with avian flu. It later destroyed all the birds and sent two samples of the disease to a central veterinary diagnosis centre for further testing. The agency also had the entire Da Cau hamlet disinfected with lime and cloramin B.
The Bac Ninh Animal Health Department has set up two temporary checkpoints at the hamlet, suspended all activities involving poultry in markets within Nam Son commune, vaccinated all the fowl in the commune and is closely monitoring the slaughter of poultry in an effort to prevent the epidemic from spreading.
Locations of Human infections reported in 2010.
