Vietnam Finds New Case Of Bird Flu, Contains It

Birdflu has broken out in Vietnam more than a month after an outbreak that killed 16 people was declared over. The latest outbreak of the deadly H5N1 birdflu virus was found on a farm in the south of the country. It has been successfully contained, a senior agriculture official was quoted as saying on Thursday. “There is an outbreak in Dong Thap,” Bui Quang Anh, director of the Agriculture Ministry’s animal health department, told the state-run Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper, referring to a southern province.

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