Please check that the bird died despite vaccination

Yesterday afternoon 17-1, Department of Animal Health issued a letter to the Regional Animal Health Center of Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong Veterinary Department and Long An, asking to check the information that showed signs of vaccination in poultry ( Poultry was vaccinated but still died).

According to the Department of Animal Health, recent observations show that poultry protection effectiveness after vaccination against influenza is over 70% with the requirement that poultry must be given two doses.

(Photo: VietNamNet) On the same day, at the meeting of the National Steering Committee for Avian Influenza, representatives from the Department of Animal Health said in January there will be a total of 35 million doses of vaccine against bird flu coming back to Vietnam, enough to Additional injections for poultry. The Department will also deploy vaccination for geese after 4.5 million doses of avian influenza vaccines will return to Vietnam in the next few days.

At the meeting, the deputy director of the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology Pham Ngoc Dinh said that the latest flu monitors all showed negative results for H5N1, but the H3 type flu strain is showing signs of increasing. The National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology is continuing with the Department and the Veterinary Institute to closely monitor the situation of genetic changes in avian influenza virus to promptly deal.

According to VNA on the afternoon of January 17, Dr. Nguyen Huy Nga, head of the Vietnam Preventive Medicine Department, said the experts of the Vietnamese Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. (FAO) came to a family of four suspected patients with influenza A (H5N1) in Nam Can district (Ca Mau). Here, the group took the samples, examined the medical records and once again confirmed: these four patients had pneumonia, not infected with influenza A (H5N1).

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