In the face of the risk of a global flu pandemic: Staggering hundreds of clues

Despite warnings about pandemic bird outbreaks, people and authorities in some localities are still indifferent or have not taken drastic measures to prevent it.

Quarantine through speakers

Chicken is being slaughtered right on the pile of manure and chicken feathers at Long Bien market (Hanoi) on October 24 afternoon

The situation of transporting and trading poultry without quarantine still occurs in many places in Hanoi city.

At 2 pm on October 24, although not the peak hour of transportation and slaughter, at Long Bien wholesale market, poultry trading, transport and slaughtering activities are still quite busy. The salesmen are enlisted at the absence of customers to eat sticky rice, and some people take advantage of leaning back in a hammock that hangs above the chicken cages and piles of feces, feathers and chicken hearts mixed yet untouched are still piled up , aged from morning.

On the ground, flooded with piles of poultry waste is a lot of buckets, bowls and bowls on the water, making shoppers afraid to walk through this area. The seller said it was a "row" to pour into the night food stores in the street. They took meat and hearts every day, and here they were.

A small truck was parked in the middle of the market waiting for the crowd to wash each bag of poultry feathers loaded onto the car. Each large basin of water was poured into sacks filled with feathers to wash and thrown into the car, water flowing into the stream flowing into the dry areas to carry the waste of the slaughter area had a strong smell.

A loading woman said: 'This feather is transported to Trieu Khuc village, Ha Tay (that is, the car carrying the feathers and the water flowing with this stench and unsanitary smell will run through the Hanoi street), dried and sold to China '.

At Hang Be market, poultry business households are on the first floor, and even the attic is the living and eating place of 'miserable owners'.

The banning of poultry trade is set up in many places. Observing carefully, we found most of the cages, cages containing geese, chickens and ducks displayed on the ground were not stamped quarantine. Moreover, the quarantine work here is 'fast as a lightning pan', a quarantine quarantine officer collapsed and wore a 'sluggish' face mask with a small knife, a non-gloved hand, flipped over some of them. poultry . stamped. That's the quarantine process.

Hundreds of chickens, ducks, geese . without stamped quarantine are brought to slaughter at the area where the live poultry is sold without being taken to the slaughter area as prescribed.

Unable to control!

Will not eat poultry soup

The National Steering Committee for Influenza Prevention and Control said that it would prohibit eating poultry, banning eating unprocessed eggs and poultry products.This regulation may be enacted with regulations prohibiting poultry farming in urban areas, urban areas, industrial zones, residential areas with high population density;Prohibit raising ducks to run freely in the fields, banning the release of poultry .

K.HUNG

In the poultry trade area of ​​Ben Tre market in the afternoon of October 24, Ms. Vo Thi Tuyet, selling live poultry said: 'We have sold out already. But somehow, three days ago, I heard the announcement for resale, so I came back to the market. Veterinary medicine is also present to check, seal normal quarantine, but it is forbidden! '.

According to our observation, only about 10% of chickens and ducks sold in Ben Tre market last afternoon were stamped with veterinary quarantine. Talking about quarantine, Ms. Vo Thi Tuyet urged: 'Quarantine his type as well as, take any child to seal them all. The day before I brought the duck to death, he also played very well. '

Talking to Youth reporters on October 24 afternoon, Mr. Nguyen Quoc Bao - Vice Chairman of Ben Tre Provincial People's Committee - said that although the province has announced the ban on the re-establishment of poultry flocks from June 2005 to the end of this year, at the same time requires not to use poultry for food during the vaccination period, the transport of poultry must be allowed by veterinary .

However, it can only be done in Ben Tre town and towns; In remote areas, it is impossible to control. Due to the absence of epidemics, it is not possible to prohibit the sale of poultry and poultry products.

In the afternoon, exchanging with Tuoi Tre, Vice Chairman of Long An Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Thanh Nguyen said that so far the province has vaccinated against 92% of the total of 2.3 million heads. Mr. Nguyen acknowledged that the prevention of bird flu in Long An last time, despite concentration, is practically uncontrollable.

Currently functional departments of Long An province have submitted to the provincial People's Committee the plan of rewarding the discoverers, denouncing the cases of sneaking eggs and re-herd. The provincial People's Committee is studying this proposal and will likely sign it in the near future.

HOANG MAI - RECOVERY - SCHOOL

Must be drastic in preventing bird flu

At the meeting, the National Steering Committee for AI Prevention and Control on October 24 afternoon, Mr. Bui Ba Bong, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), affirmed that measures must be taken to prevent the most drastic way to prevent outbreaks of disease.

Up to now, the two localities have completed the second vaccination for poultry in Nam Dinh and Tien Giang with a total of 13.6 million vaccinated birds. 37 other provinces are deploying vaccines for 48.4 million birds. By October 23, 20.5 million doses of H5N1 vaccine were imported from China and MARD was distributing in priority order to high-risk provinces in the Mekong Delta, Southeast and Dong by the Red River.

However, Bong stressed: 'If not implementing the slaughter management, animal husbandry, environmental hygiene, poisoning and disinfection measures, vaccination will not work'. Therefore, for the planning of poultry farming and slaughtering system, Bong said he will focus on deploying in big and populous cities such as Hanoi, Ha Dong, Hai Phong, Hai Duong, Ha Long and Nam. Dinh, Thanh Hoa, Vinh, Hue, Nha Trang, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City, Bien Hoa. Accordingly, it will be determined not to have the situation of raising, trading and slaughtering cattle and poultry in the inner city, inner city and densely populated areas.

HUNG HUNG