Friday, January 14, 2011

Vietnam - Bac Can province has announced the influenza A (H5N1)

Bac outbreak of foot and mouth
Updated 16:22, Friday, 14/01/2011 (GMT +7)
Nhan Dan Online-not the cold weather damage to cattle in Bac Kan die-off began, but until now the province appears to foot and mouth epidemic in cattle in Ngan Son district and Influenza A (H5N1 ) in poultry in San Lang commune, Na Ri district.

Bac Can province has announced the foot and mouth epidemic in cattle and pigs at the Van Tung commune, Thuong Van and Quan Bang Ngan Son district, the menace of eight communes and towns of the Ngan Son district, Na Ri. Initially, only a few buffalo in Na Lang, Van Tung commune appearance of symptoms such as fever, swollen legs, the mouth is the rash, stop eating. Veterinary staff determined that the foot and mouth disease. Previously, the disease broke out in Nong Thinh commune, Cho Moi district.

Although the district authorities have adopted the guidance relative isolation cattle disease to treat, localized grassland husbandry, hygiene and chemical spray disinfection pens once a day, but because people are not aware of the good, as for buffalo in the same slot in the rocks, eating straw, damp bedding, and others ranging in the forest, the field should have made the disease quickly spread to the countryside neighboring commune of Van Tung, spread to the social side is the Bang Van Quan and Shanghai with a total of 146 cattle and 16 pigs infected.

Hundreds of cattle at Kim Lu commune, Huu Cuong Loi and Waterfall Na Ri district also has symptoms similar to foot and mouth.

In recent days, in rural New Market, San Lang commune, Na Ri district appeared Influenza A (H5N1) in poultry. Bac Can province has announced the influenza A (H5N1) in this community. Far local authorities have culled more than 1,400 chickens, geese and disinfection sprays, vaccination, quarantine station established at both the Upper and Luong Thanh Luong to encircle outbreak.

Concern now is the people in some local hidden disease in cattle and poultry to avoid being destroyed. 13-1 to date, local governments may set up the key, the quarantine station at the foot and mouth Ngan Son district to control cattle and pig out on the area. These are risks that would make the disease spread in large part to.

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