Bird flu recurs in 7 provinces

Now bird flu occurs in 39 communes and wards, 19 districts belonged to 7 provinces including Ca Mau, Bac Lieu, Hau Giang, Vinh Long, Kien Giang, Tra Vinh and Soc Trang within not over 21 days.

To the date January 14, 2007 2 communes of Luong The Tran (Cai Duoc District) and Dam Doi Town (Dam Doi District) belonged to Ca Mau Province have not arisen new epidemic beds during last 21 days. Until now, there are 24 communes, 9 districts belonged to provinces Ca Mau (6 districts, 16 communes), Bac Lieu (2 districts, 6 communes) that have not arisen new epidemic beds during last 10 days.

To go on implementation of additional inoculation for local livestock, at the present time, it is estimated that the entire 2,110, 919 livestock have been inoculated including 324,187 chickens, 1,785,742 ducks.

In the morning January 14, 2007 after really checking new epidemic bed in Thuan Phu A hamlet, Thuan An Commune, Binh Minh District, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development- Chief of National Steering Board of bird-flu prevention- Mr. Cao Duc Phat insists on the importance of 3 factors: epidemic prevention is key, base is key, and awareness people is key so that we could prevent effectively poultry from bird flu.

According to Minister Cao Duc Phat, in long-term period, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development get along with the locals to mobilize people in quickly transferring from old methods of raising to new methods which is controllable, biological safety, environmental sanitation and ensure inoculation of all livestock as well as instruct methods of raising; improve skills of veterinary executives to control, handle epidemic from the base.

About expenditure of epidemic prevention, Minister demands that local authorities cannot be late in epidemic prevention because of none or deficiency in expenditure

Now, delegations of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Technological Science, Ministry of Aquiculture, Regional Committee of State, Ministry of Industry are steering, checking, and reinforcing implementation of urgent methods for epidemic prevention in cities and provinces.

(Translated by THKC)