For the second time of the year, the flu returned to the South

After 21 days of no new outbreak in the country, the veterinary sector announced that the flu outbreak was controlled on March 28. But by March 30, the Department of Animal Health issued a notice to detect influenza virus in the flock in Ca Mau.

According to the Ca Mau SDAH's report, there are 85 ducks, of which 65 are scattered and scattered on March 22 (2 ducks) in 2 households in hamlets 4 and 6, Khanh Binh Dong commune, Tran Van Thoi district. 20 days old, not vaccinated. Subsequent tests showed positive results for H5N1 influenza virus.

(Artwork: VNN) Ca Mau Veterinary Department has coordinated with local authorities to destroy all ducks, disinfect outbreaks, and closely monitor the disease situation in poultry and humans. .

This is the second time this year that the agricultural sector has basically announced the end of the epidemic. Previously, on February 12, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development announced that it had controlled the bird flu in the Mekong Delta, but only 14 days later, it had to announce the recurrence of the epidemic in the North. .

Seeing the risk of recurring outbreaks more frequently, in the morning of March 12, at the conference to implement the plan for prevention and control of avian influenza, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung affirmed that the people and veterinary forces should determine. must live long with the epidemic.

Deputy Prime Minister instructed, leaders of provinces and cities were not subjective to the translation, mobilized from producers, business to consumers into epidemic prevention and control, attaching the responsibility of local authorities to the work. anti-epidemic.

Hong Khanh