Spraying antiseptic at poultry breeding farms prevents possible disease outbreaks (Photo: VNA)HCM City (VNS/VNA) –
Authorities in southern provinces and cities are taking necessary measures
to prevent diseases in poultry and transmission to humans.
The weather in the south is now in
a transition period, which is creating favourable conditions for
the development of diseases if effective measures are not taken.
From now until the end of the year, the Mekong
Delta province of Kien Giang will strengthen preventive measures to prevent
A/H5N1 avian influenza and avoid new outbreaks next year.
The province’s Sub-department of
Animal Husbandry and Health has coordinated with localities to provide
H5N1 avian flu vaccines to its 15 local districts and cities, especially in
poultry farming areas and breeding grounds.
At the same time, the sub-department is also
cleaning and disinfecting the environment in hatcheries, breeding facilities,
slaughterhouses, and trade and transport of poultry.
It is also raising awareness among poultry
breeders and the public about the risk of .
Local authorities have coordinated with agencies
to protect poultry flock and ensure hygiene and
food safety for consumers, especially for the Christmas, New
Year and Tet (Lunar New Year) holidays.
The provincial Department of Agriculture and
Rural Development has directed districts, communes and wards to
promptly detect and handle new outbreaks and prevent the spread of
disease.
Around the end of October, Hon Dat district’s
animal husbandry division recorded three H5N1 outbreaks in Binh Son commune and
Soc Son town.
About 750 chickens at three breeding households
were culled. All samples taken from the outbreaks tested
positive for avian H5N1.
The district’s People’s Committee directed
branches and localities to step up avian-flu prevention
measures and stamp out outbreaks of the disease, destroying chickens
infected with A/H5N1, and disinfecting poultry areas, to avoid a
large-scale outbreak.
Meanwhile, the central province of Binh Thuan
has taken measures to prevent and combat diseases as well as minimise outbreaks
in cattle and poultry until the end of the year.
Veterinary services have disseminated
information in the community about the need for preventive measures
and the effects of avian influenza.
Local livestock producers have been asked to
strengthen the implementation of the “Five-No’s”: do not eat
free-range poultry; do not trade in dead poultry; do not eat sick or dead
poultry; do not hide epidemics; and do not throw away infected poultry in the
environment.
People should immediately report to local
officials if they have detected poultry that is sick or dead for an unknown
reason.
The provincial Sub-Department of
Animal Husbandry and Health plans to coordinate with localities to
conduct regular inspections of hygienic conditions at poultry farming
households and large-scale livestock farms.
Checkpoints will be set up to strictly
handle all cases of illegal transport, trading and slaughtering
of poultry illegally imported without a quarantine certificate.
More than 14 million doses of vaccines against
bird flu for poultry and over 177,000 doses of vaccines for cattle have
been given across the province.
The department has coordinated with localities
to organise the second stage of an action month on hygiene and
environmental disinfection with more than 1,900 litres of
antiseptic used to reduce pathogens in the environment.
Thanks to preventive measures, no outbreak of
dangerous diseases has been recorded in the province since the beginning of the
year.
However, some common infectious diseases such as
hemorrhoids, cholera and pneumonia have occurred, scattered through Ham Tan
and Ham Thuan Bac districts and Phan Thiet city.-VNS/VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
