20 million doses of H5N1 vaccine arrived in Vietnam

Mr. Hoang Van Nam, Deputy Director of Animal Health Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said, on November 4, there will be 20 million doses of H5N1 vaccine from China will return to Vietnam.

According to Mr. Nam, 75 million birds were vaccinated with H5N1 and H5N2; This November will complete vaccination for poultry and waterfowl nationwide.

Today, November 3, in Hanoi, the meeting on the implementation of AI prevention and control was chaired by Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat to discuss emergency measures to prevent and fight against bird flu. hold.

In the face of the threat of a bird flu pandemic, members of the National Steering Committee for Avian Influenza and Prevention recommend urgent measures to strengthen close surveillance of the disease; strengthen domestic and border quarantine; prohibit farming and slaughtering poultry in the inner city .

Although the epidemic has not yet happened but before the unfavorable evolution of bird flu in the world, the Steering Committee will petition the Government to set up a delegation to check the prevention of avian influenza nationwide.