HANOI,
July 4 (Bernama) -- Vietnam will import additional 200 million doses of
bird flu vaccines for poultry from China, Xinhua news agency reported
Wednesday.
The Vietnamese Finance Ministry has agreed to import the vaccines which
will be bottled in Vietnam, the news agency quoted a local newspaper
Vietnam Agriculture, as saying.
Vietnamese Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat
has urged relevant agencies to accelerate the process of testing
locally-made bird flu vaccines.
Now, Vietnam mainly uses vaccines imported mainly from China and the
Netherlands.
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The country has so far this
year vaccinated 153.5 million fowls in 63 out of its 64 cities and provinces,
including nearly 85.6 million chickens, over 64.3 million ducks and roughly 3.6
million white-winged ducks, according to the Department of Animal Health under
the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Bird flu, starting to strike Vietnam in December 2003, has hit 18 cities and
provinces nationwide since early May, the department said, noting that nine
localities have detected no new outbreaks for at least three weeks, meeting
criteria for announcing an end to bird flu outbreaks in their territory.--
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