Keyword: "bird flu"

H5N1 influenza normally spreads between sick poultry, but it can sometimes spread from poultry to humans.

According to medical records, the child was in contact with infected chickens raised by her family and passed away on February 25 after developing symptoms like fever, cough, and shortness of breath.

The Cambodian Ministry of Health on July 8 announced that another human case of H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed on a 5-year-old girl in Takeo province, bringing the number of the infections to seven since the start of 2024.

The Department of Agriculture (DA) of the Philippines announced on January 9 that the country has banned the import of poultry and poultry products, including wild birds, from Belgium and France due to the outbreak of bird flu in these European countries.

Usually, people infected with influenza A/H1N1 will clear up in less than a week, but there is still a high risk of serious complications.

The Jakarta Food Security, Maritime Affairs, and Agriculture (KPKP) Office of Indonesia has implemented biosecurity procedures to prevent the potential spread of clade 2.3.4.4b of the H5N1 virus or bird flu in the capital city.

The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said in its statement on April 18 that Cambodia had recorded the first outbreak of H5N6 bird flu virus among the country’s poultry.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has signed off a national plan on avian influenza prevention and control for 2019-2025 with a view to reducing its impact on society and the economy.

An outbreak of A/H5N6 influenza, also known as bird flu, which is transmittable to humans, has been detected in the central province of Phu Yen, said a local official.

A national plan on bird flu control during 2019-2025 will have a budget of 762 billion VND (over 32.6 million USD), it was reported at a conference in Hanoi on October 16.

The Department of Animal Health under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has warned of a high risk of the return of avian influenza in Vietnam after the epidemic was put under control for a long period of time.

The Ministry of Health has urged municipal and provincial people’s committees, health departments and citizens across the country to take preventions against a possible bird flu over the next 16 days ahead of the Lunar New Year and duringthe first months of the new year. ​

The Philippines was hit by a bird flu outbreak in November, according to Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol.

Health experts from 54 countries and international organisations gathered at a conference in the central coastal city of Da Nang on August 29 to strengthen cooperation and share approaches to prevent animal-to-human transmission diseases, including bird flu, Ebola and rabies.

Myanmar on August 27 announced the lifting of restrictions on transport of chickens and other products imposed due to the recent bird flu H5N1 attack, claiming that the outbreak is under control.

Bird flu has broken out in Dawei, Myanmar’s southern Tanitharyi coastal region, said Myanmar authorities on July 26, while the country recorded three deaths of H1N1 influenza, also known as swine flu.

The Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture of Saudi Arabia has temporarily banned imports of live birds, hatching eggs and chicks from Vietnam over concerns about avian flu.

A new outbreak of avian influenza A virus subtype H5N1 has been detected in the central province of Ha Tinh, according to the Department of Animal Health under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Tonnes of poultry are illegally traded and slaughtered daily in Hanoi’s markets raising public concern over the spread of avian influenza in the capital.

Vietnam has suspended the imports of poultry and poultry products from the US states of Wisconsin and Tennessee which have been affected by a strain of low pathogenic H5N2 and the high-pathogenic H7 avian influenza virus. ​