Vietnam: Alert to avian influenza

Tue, 06/01/2009 - 06:10 "GMT +7

With the weather is cold to extend the current defined as favorable conditions for the H5N1 virus developed. Indeed in some southern provinces have appeared at special poultry positive with H5N1 virus.

Through hundreds of test serum samples taken at a poultry have been vaccinated, the rate of resistance to reach the level of protection in very low. Especially recently agencies detected in Thai Nguyen incurred a flu outbreak on flocks thousand including 148 children.

At present consumption needs of the poultry population is increasing rapidly, especially on festival occasions Ky Sưu coming. While the control slaughter, transport, trade, illegal import of poultry through the border is still a lot split and not highly effective. Moreover, by no longer have to translate all the people, government establishments and agencies have the stars nhang, lo, is to prevent disease for cattle and poultry. Therefore we can say the risk of re Bùng of HPAI lơ lửng still suspended, threatened production platforms and people's health.

We had too many lessons in the season and before. Many of the ideas such as safety, immune disease, but still Bùng play, causing heavy damage to livestock. This can only be explained as due to the owners of the people and lack of active, positive government establishments and agencies.

To prevent and deter effective HPAI re Gender in the province today is in addition to enhancing the sense of alert and prevention for people, all levels of government and industry must function test, review all the flocks of cattle and poultry available, if not vaccinated must be conducted to thoroughly vaccinated, data volume, the nose, with poultry have been vaccinated to check the level of protection or higher low for solutions. What people expect more this year as construction of slaughter concentration of control of animal health promotion should be more urgently, quickly bringing products to the market to serve people . One important issue is to have more measures to prevent them thoroughly illegal import of poultry through the border, if not the germs will spread to poultry in the province and in-depth local.

Impact, negative impacts of HPAI is very big, so everyone knows, so must efforts to prevent, deter and must start from the awareness, awareness of these actions, the tools can.