Illustrative image (Source: VNA)Ba Ria-Vung Tau (VNA) –
The A/H7N9 and A/H5N1 es may enter Vietnam through poultry
smuggled from China and Cambodia and wild birds, an official from the Ministry
of Heath has said.
During a press conference in Vung Tau city, southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau province
on March 21, Dr. Pham Hung, head of the Office for Infectious Diseases Control
from the Department of Preventive Medicine, said the A/H7N9 virus has hit
Chinese localities and the virus was spotted in Cambodian provinces,
which border Vietnam.
Meanwhile, as of March 14, outbreaks
of A/H5N1 and A/H5N7 flu were detected in fowls in Vietnam.
Hung raised the need to intensify monitoring the smuggling of poultry via transit
markets and tracks and expanding supervision at localities bordering China and
Cambodia as well as poultry and poultry product wholesale markets.
He also warned people traveling
to outbreak-affect localities and those who worked with to reach health
care facilities as soon as showing symptoms.
He asserted that the toughest
challenge in controlling the is unobvious symptoms in affected livestock.
The Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Development has strengthened supervision in markets and centres trading poultry,
but no infections have been found, he said.
Monitoring activities will also
be expanded among the communities, especially that along the border with China
and Cambodia, while equipment, medicine and human resources have been prepared
to deal with the outbreak of the virus, said Hung.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
