Vietnam fights bird flu outbreak
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Some 4,000 chickens are culled in Vietnam in the latest of several bird flu outbreaks which are damaging the country's economy.
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Vietnam Wednesday confirmed that three of its citizens had died of bird flu early this month, Xinhua reports.
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Blood taken from four Vietnamese survivors of the H5N1 bird flu virus protected mice from several strains of the virus, researchers reported on Monday.
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Vietnam culled 450 ducks in its largest city on Thursday, its latest attempt to stop the spread of the bird flu virus that has killed 34 people across Asia and ravaged the region's poultry industry.
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Even as avian flu has faded from the headlines, the lethal viral illness continues to strike in certain corners of the world and, in an especially ominous development, health authorities said they believe it has reemerged in Vietnam, where control measures had stopped its spread for more than a year.
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Doctors suspect bird flu may have killed  a four-year-old child in northern Vietnam, state-run radio said  on Wednesday.
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Vietnam confirms the death of some 6,000 domestic poultry from bird flu, after being free of human cases for a year.
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BALI, Indonesia  - Vietnam is imposing stringent  measures to contain a second outbreak of bird flu, which  promises to unsettle the poultry and feed industries just as  they were showing signs of recovery, a senior Vietnamese trade  official said on Wednesday.
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Thailand declared a national war on bird flu Wednesday as Asia&#39;s death toll in the epidemic rose to 30 with Vietnam confirming another fatality, amid concern that the virus had passed from human to human.
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Some 4,000 chickens are culled in Vietnam after the latest bird flu outbreak to hit the country's economy.
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Kuala Lumpur (VNA) - Southeast Asian countries have endorsed a plan to combat bird flu that aims to prevent the disease from spreading and reduce its risk for human pandemic after a two-day meeting in Singapore .
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Vietnam is imposing stringent measures to contain a second outbreak of bird flu, which promises to unsettle the poultry and feed industries just as they were showing signs of recovery, a senior Vietnamese trade official said on Wednesday.
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Vietnam, fearing new cases of the bird flu virus that killed more than 30 people across Asia last year and ravaged the region's poultry industry, is urging consumers to exercise caution in buying chicken.
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The WHO reports three new deaths from bird flu in Vietnam, one of which was from the H5N1 virus strain.
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Bird flu has spread to another province in northern Vietnam and now nine cities and provinces have been struck by the deadly virus in less than a month, the Agriculture Ministry said.
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BEIJING - China has drastically stepped up vigilance against bird flu in regions along the border with Vietnam, where a series of outbreaks have recently been reported.
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Southeast Asian nations agreed on Friday to set up a task force to coordinate the fight against a deadly bird flu which has killed 31 people and ravaged poultry flocks across the region.