Bird flu has recently stricken Vietnam's central Quang Tri province when it infected a flock of 600 ducks in the locality, local newspaper Labor on Thursday quoted a local veterinary agency as reporting.
The disease killed 290 ducks in the flock raised by a household in Gio Linh district, the Department of Animal Health under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said, noting that specimens from the affected poultry have been tested positive to bird flu virus strain H5N1.
On Oct. 11, the department reported that bird flu outbreaks reoccurred in the country's southern Tra Vinh province.
Vietnam is focusing on intensifying disease surveillance, monitoring of poultry raising, transporting and trading, and vaccination among fowls nationwide.
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, said the department.
Source:Xinhua
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