Bird flu temporarily contained

24/12/2007 -- 10:47 AM

Ha Noi (VNA) – Viet Nam has temporarily contained bird flu as the country reported no new outbreak over the past 23 days, the Veterinary Department said on December 23. The department, however, warned localities that there is a high risk of bird flu recurrence as the winter sets in. Up to now, 35 out of 63 cities and provinces nationwide have completed the second vaccination of 2007 and over 147 million fowls have been vaccinated. On the same day, the Health Department of central Da Nang city held a exercise on fighting avian influenza infection on humans. At the Da Nang Airport , relevant workforce was required to deal with a case that three foreigners were supposed to be infected with specific symptoms of the H5N1 infection such as high fever and tiredness. This was part of the effort to control the spread of the disease in case of outsiders bring it into the country.-Enditem
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