The animal health department of central Da Nang city has been keeping aclose watch on the bird flu situation in order to timely discover anddeal with abnormal poultry deaths.
The disease,which has yet to be recorded in the city, has hit the Central Highlandsand central provinces and killed two people in the southernprovinces of Binh Phuoc and Dong Thap so far this year.
The department has vaccinated fowl across the city.
The municipal agricultural sector has also provided 1.5 tonnes ofchemicals for localities to disinfect, breading farms andslaughterhouses.
Households have been asked to inform local veterinarians if strange symptoms appear in their fowl.
Da Nang has 400,000 heads of poultry and eight main slaughterhouses.To ensure food safety, all small abattoirs will be closed by February28.
Drastic measures have also been carried outin the southern province of Dong Nai in order to prevent all strains ofavian influenza.
Head of the provincial AnimalHealth Department Tran Van Quang said there is a risk that the flu couldbreak out in the province as it now has nearly 12 million chickens.-VNA
The disease,which has yet to be recorded in the city, has hit the Central Highlandsand central provinces and killed two people in the southernprovinces of Binh Phuoc and Dong Thap so far this year.
The department has vaccinated fowl across the city.
The municipal agricultural sector has also provided 1.5 tonnes ofchemicals for localities to disinfect, breading farms andslaughterhouses.
Households have been asked to inform local veterinarians if strange symptoms appear in their fowl.
Da Nang has 400,000 heads of poultry and eight main slaughterhouses.To ensure food safety, all small abattoirs will be closed by February28.
Drastic measures have also been carried outin the southern province of Dong Nai in order to prevent all strains ofavian influenza.
Head of the provincial AnimalHealth Department Tran Van Quang said there is a risk that the flu couldbreak out in the province as it now has nearly 12 million chickens.-VNA
