# 1588
With the deluge of stories out of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Indonesia . . . Vietnam has sort of fallen off the radar screen, even though they have already recorded one bird flu death this year.
Like many countries in S.E. Asia, bird flu appears well entrenched, and new outbreaks in birds are a fairly common occurance.
This from the Thanh Nien News
February 1, 2008 18:00:40 Vietnam (GMT+07)
Bird flu spreads in central Vietnam
Ducks continue to die in Hong Thuy Commune in Quang Binh Province, Pham Hong Son, head of the provincial Animal Health Department, confirmed Friday.
About 465 ducks have died since the initial outbreak on January 23 in the central province, of which 15 were injected with the first H5N1 vaccine six days ago.
After the outbreak, the local administration culled 5,300 ducks and made plans to control the epidemic.
The administration of the northern Thai Nguyen Province officially reported on Wednesday that bird flu broke out in the area.
It hit 110 ducks and 4,000 chickens.
The chickens had been inoculated with the H5N1 vaccine on January 21.
Four provinces have suffered from the recurrence of bird flu since late December - Quang Binh, Thai Nguyen, Tra Vinh and Tuyen Quang.
Bird flu has killed 48 people in Vietnam since 2003.
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