Home>News Center>World
         
 

Vietnam spots birdflu outbreaks near China
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-12-05 20:47

Vietnam said on Monday four bird flu outbreaks have killed more than 900 ducks and chickens in a northern province on the border with China.

Health workers slaughtered another 3,717 birds in Cao Bang province after the outbreaks were reported in four communes last Friday, the Agriculture Ministry's Animal Health Department said.

"The test results showed the birds were positive with the H5 virus," it said in a report on its Web site, www.mard.gov.vn/dah.

The poultry infections in Cao Bang, 270 km (170 miles) north of Hanoi and which borders the Chinese southern province of Guangxi, followed six outbreaks last week in Vietnam's north.

Bird flu has killed or resulted in the slaughter of 2.39 million poultry since the virus returned in early October and has now spread to 17 of Vietnam's 64 provinces, most in the north as winter arrives.

The H5N1 virus which thrives best in cooler temperatures has infected 133 people in Asia since late 2003 and killed almost 70 people. Vietnam has 93 human infections, 42 of them fatal.



Man nabbed for intrusion at White House
Entire Crab Nebula under Hubble
AIDS awareness campaign
 
  Today's Top News     Top World News
 

State banks not sold cheaply - banking regulator

 

   
 

China orders 150 Airbus jets worth $9.7b

 

   
 

China opens door wider to foreign banks

 

   
 

Koizumi talking: 'Yasukuni card' won't work

 

   
 

China's economy to grow by 9.4 pct this year

 

   
 

DPP under pressure to improve mainland ties

 

   
  Court reverses ruling in Saddam trial
   
  Saddam trial to resume with some hidden witnesses
   
  Former 9/11 commissioners: US still at risk
   
  Iraq ex-PM says survives assassination bid
   
  US missile, al-Qaida death bay be linked
   
  Chavez allies say victorious in Congress vote
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  News Talk  
  Are the Republicans exploiting the memory of 9/11?  
Manufacturers, Exporters, Wholesalers - Global trade starts here.
Advertisement