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Article: Vietnam Begins Mass Vaccination of Poultry
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- August 3, 2005
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MARGIE MASON, AP Medical Writer
AP Online
08-03-2005
Dateline: HANOI, Vietnam
A veterinary official injects a bird flu vaccine into a chicken in An Thanh Thuy commune of Tien Giang province in Vietnam Saturday, July 30, 2005 as part of a trial run before mass vaccination. The northern province of Nam Dinh will also participate in the pilot vaccination project that includes 20 million doses for two provinces. Bird flu has devastated poultry stocks and has killed 41 people in Vietnam. (AP Photo)
Vietnam this week began administering the first of about 20 million shots to the nation's poultry stock in the largest-scale bird flu vaccination program ever conducted here.
Officials will have to ...