Vietnam is expected to import additional 100 million doses of bird flu vaccines for fowls, local newspaper Saigon Liberation on Friday quoted a local animal health agency as reporting.
Early this month, the country imported 200 million doses of the vaccines from China, said the Department of Animal Health under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The country has so far this year vaccinated over 164.2 million fowls in 63 out of its 64 cities and provinces, including nearly 87.4 million chickens, nearly 73 million ducks and roughly 3.9 million white-winged ducks, said the department.
Bird flu is now hitting one commune in the Vietnamese southern province of Tra Vinh, according to the department.
Bird flu outbreaks in Vietnam, starting in December 2003, have killed and led to the forced culling of dozens of millions of fowls in the country.
Source: Xinhua
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