Bac Giang: Announcing bird flu in 3 communes

A suspected case of H5N1

In the afternoon of November 3, Chairman of Bac Giang People's Committee decided to announce bird flu in three communes: Yen Lu (Yen Dung), Van Trung and Tang Tien (Viet Yen). Accordingly, the chairman of the People's Committees of Viet Yen and Yen Dung districts shall immediately implement measures to prevent and combat epidemics.

Chairman of the provincial People's Committee also directed the director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, members of the Steering Committee for epidemic prevention and control are responsible for directing the relevant professional agencies to strictly control the situation and promptly handle Time, not to spread bird flu.

Over the past days, the flu epidemic has caused illness and killed more than 3,000 poultry in Viet Yen and Yen Dung districts, especially the epidemic caused 100% death of waterfowl (ngan, ducks) of families with outbreaks.

* Talking to Youth at 3-11 pm, Mr. Hoang Van Nam - Deputy Director of Department of Animal Health, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development - said the agency has checked and directly directed and requested Bac Giang. announced bird flu right in the afternoon of the same day.

Mr. Nam said earlier that the Department of Animal Health had sent officials to Yen Dung and Viet Yen districts to guide animal health and local authorities to strictly implement emergency preventive measures.

* Noon 3-11, Bac Giang General Hospital received a patient with symptoms of high fever with difficulty breathing. The patient named TTH, 24 years old, is pregnant for seven months, residing in Viet Yen district (the place recently announced by Bac Giang province is a translation point). At the hospital, doctors suspected of being infected with H5N1 patients should have isolated treatment at the department and take specimens to take to Hanoi for testing. Before that, there was a flock of dead ducks in the patient's home.

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Hanoi: Patients with suspected H5N1 influenza have negative test results

According to Dr. Nguyen Tran Hien, director of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, patients suspected of H5N1 NMT (25 years old, Dong Da district, Hanoi) had H5N1 test negative.

As Tuoi Tre reported, Ms. NMT had previously eaten ready-made chicken bought from the market and had the flu. Ms. T. was hospitalized at the respiratory department, Bach Mai Hospital on November 1 in the state of having similar symptoms to bird flu. Currently Mrs. T.'s health is better, no longer having to support breathing by breathing machine.

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