Vietnam: Ha Tinh Province; Can Loc District: Environmental Pathogens After Flood - Update

As we've been reporting, Ha Tinh, Can Loc has experiences exceptional environmental pathogens, since the flood. This is an update. So far, no people have been reported, but it is isolated now because of the water.
26/10/2010

Recent heavy rainfall has caused flooding serious consequences, for the districts of Huong Son, Huong Khe, Vu Quang, there are thousands of hectares of rice crop flooding damaged more than 10 thousand hectares of winter crops in the flood damaged .
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Ha Tinh: pay attention to the environmental hygiene to prevent disease and livestock development in Can Loc after floods

Can Loc in times of heavy rain has flooded the 19/23 communes, of which 9 complete social isolation. Due to heavy rain with water poured from upstream flooding should long have a major impact on agricultural production.

According to the flood Can Loc district People's Committee has done over 180 children are killed cattle, 3100 pigs, over 1.5 thousand birds, estimated losses of over 5 billion. With the guideline drawn to start, open sewers, environmental remediation to which to limit the disease, reducing chemical use and animal drinking water, but due to prolonged flooding, inundation broad-based so the number of dead animals and make the environment more seriously polluted.

Until now, though the water was withdrawn, but in the low-lying areas such as Tung Loc commune, Xuan Loc, Khanh dead animals and plants have died a lot of decay, causing serious environmental pollution in addition to flooding due to long time to reduce power Old animals were born out of many skin diseases and diarrhea in cattle.

Our exchange with Mr. Nguyen Van Son - Khanh Loc commune PCT said: "Flood superimposed flood, should have great influence on agricultural production of local, following floods caused by heavy rainfall, accompanied by discharge Ke's going up fast at night so that people become so had no time to hand the damage to agriculture, especially livestock, the commune has over 40 buffalo cows, pigs and more than 200 thousands poultry being washed away. "

As reported by the District Veterinary Station now appears to infectious diseases in cattle, poultry, such as harmoharrgic, typhoid and paratyphoid pigs, foot and mouth epidemic in cattle, the disease in ... poultry, have incurred damage in many areas after the flood.

Tran Van Phuc - Chief Veterinary Station district disease prevention on the road pets are having difficulties due to old epidemic pathogens are residing in the environment such as avian influenza, harmoharrgic cattle Foot mouth disease are emerging as some upper My Loc commune, Son Loc ... 21 days, this flood, low humidity, which is favorable to the spread of pathogens in the environment and widespread outbreak is inevitable.

The dangers of the disease after the flood district veterinary stations provide 400 liters of chemicals down to the communes, towns, military organizations round out disinfection entire livestock sector in the whole district, collective secondary treatment of environmental pollution of animal farms small, and the propagation and raising guidance for the care of livestock and poultry vaccination plans for additional animals to limit disease incurred following the flood damage.

To the epidemic prevention and recovery livestock development in the need of all levels and departments in the propaganda campaign to clean up other people's waste by mechanical, chemical use, lime powder to target toxic disinfecting stables, animal husbandry sector. At the same time to guide farmers on how to foster care, use of high nutrient foods to increase resistance to livestock, need special support policies like good additional source of stable livestock production after the flood.