#bird flu

The northern province of Thai Binh has scrambled to stamp out a bird flu outbreak after the A/H5N8 virus strain was detected at a poultry farm in the locality.

PSNews – This is the first report of H5N8 poultry-to-human infection despite the virus having been circulating in poultry and wild birds since 2016. The Department of Animal Health of Vietnam is going to increase testing for H5N8 virus in the national avian influenza surveillance programme starting from 2021.

Up to 4,979 poultry have been slaughtered across six districts of Hanoi following the detection of a bird flu infection spreading among local chickens.

An outbreak of A/H5N6 influenza, also known as bird flu, which is transmittable to humans, has been detected in the central province of Phu Yen, said a local official.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Animal Health Department has declared that all provinces and cities nationwide are free of avian flu, with no new outbreak detected.

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak and relevant authorities destroyed 3,475 ducks and 90 chickens infected with the A/H5N1 virus.

Another case of avian influenza, also known as bird flu, has been reported in Vietnam, health officials said on April 4.