Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Vietnam: Set up seven working groups to check bird flu prevention

Associated Press - 2 hours 43 minutes ago

TT - At the meeting the Steering Committee for prevention of avian influenza and foot and mouth 7-2 pm, Pham Van Dong - Deputy Director of Veterinary Department (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) - has made up of seven missions to test the prevention of avian influenza caused by H5N1 virus are at risk of widespread outbreaks.
According to East, in the past four weeks have been three outbreaks at Soc Trang, Quang Tri and Thanh Hoa.

Mr. Nguyen Thanh Son - Deputy Director of Animal Husbandry (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) - for that bird flu happened not too serious but notably over the same time, in 2011 did not happen any outbreak.

Besides the number of people infected with H5N1 virus but only two people have died and the Ministry of Health assessment stronger virulent virus. So worried wider outbreak occurs with viral transformation are unfounded.

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