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Article: Roundup: Bird flu spreads quickly in Vietnam
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- November 12, 2005
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Roundup: Bird flu spreads quickly in Vietnam
HANOI, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam has, over the past two months,
seen poultry die en masse in nine localities in northern, central,
southern regions, compared with five southern provinces in the same
period last year.
The northern province of Hai Duong on Nov. 10 declared outbreaks
in five communes, which has killed or led to the forced culling of
nearly 2,000 fowls since Nov. 2, raising the total number of affected
localities to eight, and that of killed and culled poultry to over
29,000.
"Between late October and early November of last year, bird flu
hit seven communes of the five provinces of Tien Giang, Long An, Soc
Trang, Ben Tre and Can ...