Officials Order Poultry Farms to Be Disinfected
Vietnam ordered health authorities to launch a nationwide campaign to clean up poultry farms in a bid to control the spread of bird flu as the number of human cases continued to grow, state media reported.
The Ministry of Health issued instructions that all poultry farms in the country, from large-scale commercial operations to backyard farms, would be disinfected beginning Friday, the Laborer newspaper reported.
Overall, 48 people in Southeast Asia have been killed by the virus, which first emerged on poultry farms in December 2003. The disease has killed two in Cambodia, 12 in Thailand and 34 in Vietnam.
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