An animal health worker fumigates a chicken farm (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc
has signed off a for
2019-2025 with a view to reducing its impact on society and the economy.
The plan seeks to prevent and control avian
influenza outbreaks and help form zones and
chains, thus minimising ’s impact on Vietnam’s public health, food
safety, and trading activities.
Authorised forces are requested to control
outbreaks well through early detection and a swift dealing with infected
hotbeds to prevent them from spreading. The plan also tasked them with
preventing new and dangerous flu strains from entering or spreading in Vietnam,
while vaccinating at least 80 percent of poultry subject to vaccination.
Additionally, disease-free poultry production
zones and chains need to be created in conformity with recommendations of the
World Organisation of Animal Health, thus ensuring qualified supply for
domestic consumption and export, and reducing the human infection of dangerous
flu strains like the H5 or H7 viruses, according to the plan.
In Vietnam, virus A/H5N1 in
poultry was reported for the first time in late 2003. At that time, Vietnam was
one of the first countries to declare an epidemic of this virus and suffered
from heavy losses when more than 45 million poultry were culled between 2003
and 2006. Since then, hundreds of thousands of poultry have been killed each
year.
From 2004 to 2014, 127 people were infected with
A/H5N1, including 64 victims who did not survive, according to the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development. –VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
